1st Edition
Experiences of Special Education Re-evaluating Policy and Practice through Life Stories
By Derrick Armstrong
Copyright 2003
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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Discussion about educational provision for children with learning difficulties has largely ignored the voices of those for whom that provision is intended. Experiences of Special Education argues that these 'insider perspectives' are of central importance for a fuller understanding of special educational needs policy. Bringing a unique focus to the subject of special needs education, Derrick... Read more
Introduction 1. The menace of the 'other' within 2. Whose history is this? Challenging 'official' narratives of educational history 3. Lives in special education: disciplinary transitions 4. Lives in special education: postwar expansion 5. Lives in special education: the management of learning difficulties 6. Special education and the politics of educational reform 7. Time, space and the construction of identity 8. Citizenship 9. Seizing the future by recapturing the past: breaking the culture of silence
Biography
Derrick Armstrong
TES Book of the Week
' A meaty, informative and moving book, and one that anyone interested in the rise and fall of special education should read' - Times Educational Supplement
'Armstrong's book, with its nuanced analysis of the consequences of special education and the discourses underpinning it upon people's lives, spotlights the reproduction of enduring inequalities and, in so doing, opens up spaces for the production of new, more egalitarian, meanings and practices. It deserves to be very widely read.' - European Journal of Special Needs Education
