1st Edition

Disabling Policies? A Comparative Approach to Education Policy and Disability

By Gillian Fulcher Copyright 1989
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1989, this book is about integrating or mainstreaming policies, looking specifically at how to improve circumstances for schoolchildren with disabilities or handicaps, and their teachers. The author draws on her experiences, both within and outside the academic institution, to conceptualise and theorise policy, so as to place this policy in a political framework and locate... Read more

Acknowledgements;  Series Editor’s Preface;  List of Tables and Figures;  Introduction;  Part I: Theorizing  1. Theorizing disability  2. Theorizing integration and mainstreaming  Part II: Local practices  3. Scandinavian policy practices  4. Californian policy practices  5. English policy practices  6. Victorian policy practices  Part III: Comparisons  7. Comparative issues  Part IV: Conclusions and an agenda  8. Conclusions  Index

Biography

Gillian Fulcher