Comparing special education
Subtitle: from origins to contemporary paradoxes
By: John G. Richardson and Justin J. W. Powell
Contributors: Powell, Justin J. W.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780804760737
Description: In contemporary conflicts about educational standards and accountability, special education plays a key role as it draws the boundaries between exclusion and inclusion. This book unites in-depth comparative and historical studies with analyses of global trends.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : from origins to contemporary paradoxes in special education; title: Ideas and institutions : the enlightenments, human nature, and disability; title: Economic change, state-making, and citizenship; title: The global institution of special education; title: Historical models and social logics of special education systems; title: Institutionalizing special education systems and their divergence over the twentieth century; title: Special education participation and the simultaneous rise of segregation and inclusion; title: Rights, liberties and education in "least" and "most" restrictive settings : contrasting futures of public education and juvenile justice; title: Between global intentions and national resistance : from special education to inclusive education?