1st Edition
Challenging the Singularity of Special Education Historical Origins, Teacher Education, and Alternate Models for Truly Inclusive Classrooms
1. Introduction: Special Education Comes of Age; 2. Roots of Special Education Pedagogy: Persons, Places, and Ideas; 3. Development of Residential Institutions for Persons with Disabilities in the United States; 4. Public Schools and Teacher Education: Foundations of an Alternative to Institutionalized Special Education; 5. Post-Civil War Developments: Special Education Enters the Public Schools; 6. Professional Training for Special Education: Building from the Ground Up; 7. Teacher Training, Special Education, and the Oswego Method; 8. Licensure, Credentials, and Developing Professionalization; 9. Supporting Professionalization: Enter the Federal Government; 10. Special Education Responds to PL94-142; 11. Professional Validation, State Certification, and the Council for Exceptional Children; 12. Building Walls, Building Bridges; 13. Minority Overrepresentation in Special Education; 14. Special Education, Higher Education, and Professional Separation; 15. Rethinking Inclusive Education: Disability Rights in Education and International Perspectives; 16. Epilogue
Biography
Robert L. Osgood is a retired Professor of Education who has taught at Colgate University, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Muskingum University, and St. Norbert College. He has published three books as well as numerous articles in History of Education Quarterly, Teachers College Record, and the Indiana Magazine of History, among others. Currently he has been named to the Fulbright Special Scholar List from June 2023 to June 2026.
