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Inclusive education continues to grow in popularity and acceptance
in the United States. However, most teachers - general and special
educators - are poorly prepared to be successful in inclusive
classrooms and schools. Undoubtedly, the challenge to professionals
involves the acquisition of new knowledge and skills. But inclusion
requires far more. It calls upon educators to trouble everything
they think they know about disability, to question their deepest
ethical commitments, to take up the work of the Disability Rights
Movement in the public schools, and to leap headlong into the
deepest waters of the rich craft tradition of inclusive teaching.
This book offers educators the guidance and resources to become
great inclusive educators by engaging in a powerful process of
personal and professional transformation.
Edited by the leading scholars in the field, Vital Questions Facing
Disability Studies in Education provides an overview and
introduction to the growing field of disability studies in
education, including the application of the interdisciplinary field
of disability studies to inclusive education, teacher education,
educational research, and educational policy development. While
traditional special education research has focused on developing
interventions aimed at increasing students' functional capacities,
disability studies scholars have asked provocative and probing
questions about how communities and schools can value, include, and
nurture disabled persons. This second edition continues the
emphasis of the first edition on the central questions that drive
this critical field of inquiry and social action, while broadening
its scope to more fully address international educational issues.
The first edition of this text has been widely adopted in
undergraduate and graduate courses in disability studies and
inclusive education.
With the passage of Public Law 94-142 in 1975, the learning
disability construct gained national legitimacy. Feeding that
political achievement, behind the very idea of a learning
disability, was the development of a science that blended
neurology, psychology, and education. This book tracks the
historical creation of the science of learning disabilities,
beginning with the clinical research with brain-injured World War I
soldiers conducted by German physician Kurt Goldstein. It traces
the growth of the two primary research traditions, the
psycholinguistic theory of Samuel Kirk and the movement education
of Newell Kephart, exploring how specific scientific orientations,
theories, and practices led to the birth of the learning disability
in the United States.
Disability and the Politics of Education: An International Reader
is a rich resource that deals comprehensively with the many aspects
of the complex topic of disability studies in education. For nearly
two decades, global attention has been given to education as a
human right through global initiatives such as Education for All
(EFA) and the Salamanca Statement. Yet according to UNESCO,
reaching the goals of EFA remains one of the most daunting
challenges facing the global community. Today, millions of the
world's disabled children cannot obtain a basic childhood
education, particularly in countries with limited resources. Even
in the wealthiest countries, many disabled children and youth are
educationally segregated from the nondisabled, particularly if they
are labeled with significant cognitive impairment. International
agencies such as the United Nations and the World Bank have
generated funds for educational development but, unfortunately,
these funds are administered with the assumption that «west is
best, thereby urging developing countries to mimic educational
policies in the United States and the United Kingdom in order to
prove their aid-worthiness. This «McDonaldization of education
reproduces the labeling, resource allocation, and social dynamics
long criticized in disability studies. The authors in this volume
explore these subjects and other complexities of disability and the
politics of education. In doing so, they demonstrate the importance
and usefulness of international perspectives and comparative
approaches.
This volume focuses on inquiry into inclusive education from the
perspective of scholarly influences in the field of practice and
research. A group of key international researchers in the field of
inclusive education have each contributed a chapter about a piece
of scholarship they believe has influenced inquiry in the field, as
a whole.
Becoming a Great Inclusive Educator, Second Edition offers
educators the guidance and resources to become great inclusive
educators by engaging in a powerful process of personal and
professional transformation. Inclusive education continues to grow
in popularity and acceptance in the United States. But most
teachers - general and special educators - are poorly prepared to
be successful in inclusive classrooms and schools. Undoubtedly, the
challenge to professionals involves the acquisition of new
knowledge and skills. But inclusion requires far more. It calls
upon educators to trouble everything they think they know about
disability, to question their deepest ethical commitments, to take
up the work of the Disability Rights Movement in the public
schools, and to leap headlong into the deepest waters of the rich
craft tradition of inclusive teaching.
Inclusive education continues to grow in popularity and acceptance
in the United States. However, most teachers - general and special
educators - are poorly prepared to be successful in inclusive
classrooms and schools. Undoubtedly, the challenge to professionals
involves the acquisition of new knowledge and skills. But inclusion
requires far more. It calls upon educators to trouble everything
they think they know about disability, to question their deepest
ethical commitments, to take up the work of the Disability Rights
Movement in the public schools, and to leap headlong into the
deepest waters of the rich craft tradition of inclusive teaching.
This book offers educators the guidance and resources to become
great inclusive educators by engaging in a powerful process of
personal and professional transformation.
Disability and the Politics of Education: An International Reader
is a rich resource that deals comprehensively with the many aspects
of the complex topic of disability studies in education. For nearly
two decades, global attention has been given to education as a
human right through global initiatives such as Education for All
(EFA) and the Salamanca Statement. Yet according to UNESCO,
reaching the goals of EFA remains one of the most daunting
challenges facing the global community. Today, millions of the
world's disabled children cannot obtain a basic childhood
education, particularly in countries with limited resources. Even
in the wealthiest countries, many disabled children and youth are
educationally segregated from the nondisabled, particularly if they
are labeled with significant cognitive impairment. International
agencies such as the United Nations and the World Bank have
generated funds for educational development but, unfortunately,
these funds are administered with the assumption that «west is
best, thereby urging developing countries to mimic educational
policies in the United States and the United Kingdom in order to
prove their aid-worthiness. This «McDonaldization of education
reproduces the labeling, resource allocation, and social dynamics
long criticized in disability studies. The authors in this volume
explore these subjects and other complexities of disability and the
politics of education. In doing so, they demonstrate the importance
and usefulness of international perspectives and comparative
approaches.
The essays in Sam Pickering's new collection sing with thoughtful
observations on life, death, love, and literature. Whether
attending a reunion at Sewanee, cruising the Caribbean, wander ing
the streets of Storrs, Connecticut, or rambling through Nova
Scotia, Pickering is able to work a quotation, insight, or
reminiscence into almost every page. His collection sparks with
copious observations from other writers and books that he's
devoured through the years. One of the many joys in Happy Vagrancy
is finding a new author or essay hiding in the deep foliage of
Pickering's prose. He delivers his insights with humor, wit, and a
keen eye for the ordinary wonders that surround us. Many of the
essays touch on death and the dying, and nothing escapes
description and fascination whether profound or seemingly less so:
the death of a dear friend or two fledgling cardinals blown from a
nest in the backyard and now covered with "periwinkle at the corner
of the yard." During a walk down a country lane, the names of
flowers, birds, and bugs fill the page. Even in a meadow buzzing
with life, there are reminders of our mortality and brief light too
soon gone-and they remind us to read, think, and live with gusto
and love.
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