International Practices in Special Education (eBook, PDF)

Debates and Challenges
Redaktion: Margret A. Winzer, Winzer

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Produktbeschreibung

Margret A. Winzer and Kas Mazurek combine two disciplines in this collection, comparative and international studies and special education, to explore the ways that diverse nations respond to persons who are exceptional. Their learned contributors also explore the changing parameters of special education, employing comparative studies theories and methods to document, explore, discuss, and analyze social and educational inclusion.International Practices in Special Education: Debates and Challenges travels the world to examine the progress of special education, from inclusive reform in Canada, "e;education for all"e; in the United Kingdom, the reform-restructure-renew movement in Poland to the journey from awareness to action in the United States. Chapters describe the challenges and opportunities in the United Arab Emirates; conflicts regarding educational welfare in South Korea; new perspectives on special needs and inclusive education in Japan; facing inclusion in India; making the invisibles visible in Pakistan; problems and prospects in Nigeria; special needs education in Ethiopia; and the developments, prospects, and demands of special education in a rising China. "e;One step forward, two steps backward"e; describes Israel's special education issues. Germany's special education receives an international perspective; and education policy and pedagogy for students with disabilities in Australia, completes the analyses in this remarkable, comprehensive work of scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gallaudet University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781563685132
• Artikelnr.: 55120911

Autorenporträt

Margret A. Winzer is Professor, Faculty of Education, at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Kas Mazurek is Professor, Faculty of Education, at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.