1st Edition

The Sociology of Disability and Inclusive Education A Tribute to Len Barton

Edited By Madeleine Arnot Copyright 2012
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

Len Barton’s intellectual and practical contribution to the sociology of disability and education is highly significant and widely known. The leading scholars in this collection, including his long term collaborators, offer both a celebration and a reassessment of this contribution, addressing the challenge that the social model of disability has presented to dominant medicalised concepts,... Read more

1. Framing the sociology of disability and education: an introduction Madeleine Arnot, Philip Brown, Amanda Coffey, Miriam David, Lynn Davies, David James, Rajani Naidoo, Diane Reay, Ivan Reid and Carol Vincent

2. A tribute to Len Barton Sally Tomlinson

3. Disability studies, disabled people and the struggle for inclusion Mike Oliver and Colin Barnes

4. Revisiting the politics of special educational needs and disability studies in education with Len Barton Roger Slee

5. Lessons for higher education: the university as a site of activism Kathleen Lynch

6. The heterodoxy of student voice: challenges to identity in the sociology of disability and education Susan J. Peters

7. The sociology of disability and the struggle for inclusive education Julie Allan

8. A time for the universal right to education: back to basics Marcia H. Rioux and Paula C. Pinto

9. Response Len Barton

Biography

Madeleine Arnot is Professor of Sociology of Education at Cambridge University, UK, and Professorial Fellow at Jesus College. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Chair of the Executive Editorial Board of the British Journal of Sociology of Education. Recent publications include Education, Asylum and the ‘Non-citizen’ child: The politics of compassion (2008, with H. Pinson and M. Candappa); Educating the Gendered Citizen: sociological engagements with national and global agendas (2009); and Gender Education and Equality in a Global Context (2008, ed. with S. Fennell).