Michael Farrell

Debating Special Education (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Debating Special Education is a provocative yet timely book examining a range of criticisms made of special education in recent years. Michael Farrell analyses several key debates in special education giving balanced critical responses to inform policy and practice for the future of special educational needs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136976605
• Artikelnr.: 42977668

Autorenporträt

Michael Farrell is an independent consultant in special education. He has published extensively in the field; his books include The Special Education Handbook, Celebrating the Special School, Key Issues in Special Education and Educating Special Children along with a number of The Effective Teacher's Guides (all published by Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Sociological criticisms 3. Rights base criticisms and
contested values 4. Postmodern and related criticisms 5. Limitations of the
special education knowledge base 6. The unhelpfulness of classification 7.
Problems with assessment 8. Negative effects of labelling 9. Professional
limitations 10. Lack of distinctive provision 11. The alternative of
inclusion as mainstreaming 12. Conclusion