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Navigating Contested Perspectives in Special Education: Promoting Dialogue for the Benefit of Pupils and Students book cover

1st Edition

Navigating Contested Perspectives in Special Education Promoting Dialogue for the Benefit of Pupils and Students

Edited By Øyvind Ibrahim Marøy Snipstad, Bente Isabell Borthne Hvidsten Copyright 2027
200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Bringing together researchers with different approaches to special education on ideological, theoretical and ethical levels, this book provides a multifaceted approach to practice, policy and theory to foster dialogue and meaningful discussion towards best practices in special education.    Chapters explore key themes such as the nature and identity of special education, the differences at both... Read more

Introduction:

Dialogues in special education
Øyvind Ibrahim Marøy Snipstad, Anne Lindblom, Kristina Brodal Syversen and Bente Hvidsten.

Theme 1: Contested identities and terminologies in special education

1.      How to understand special education: Academics’ undestanding of their field

Rune Hausstätter and Bente Hvidsten

2.      Inclusion in segregated education?

Sunniva Rogstad Hegvik and Kristina Brodal Syversen

3.      The value of empathy when facing complex special education problems

Roar Stokken, Antonio Burgos-Garcia and Torhild Høydalsvik

4.      Critical perspectives on the paradoxes of special needs education in Norway

Natallia Hanssen

5.      The meaning of care: How is caring understood, framed and communicated in special education

Øyvind Ibrahim Marøy Snipstad and Kjersti Wessel Jevne

6.      Contested terminology: Moving towards vagueness

Kristian Myre

Theme 2: Special education practices, policies, and legislations

7.       Coloniality and the implementation of inclusion in Nepal

Ram Chandra Giri, Birendra Raj Pokharel, Rune Hausstatter

8.      Vested interests - A parent/researcher/teacher’s view of the worlds of special and inclusion

Jonathan Rix

9.      Pupils’ perspectives on inclusion in ordinary school within a Danish context – being and belonging

Christina Strandholdt Andersen

10.  Challenges regarding Ukrainian students in five European countries

Vibeke Solbue and Bente Hvidsten

11.  A multi-voiced auto-ethnographic reflection on the doble education track in higher education.

Anne Lindblom, Emily MacPherson, Jon-Are Masternes and Idun Kristine Ulateig

12.  When strength becomes a problem: Misrecognizing giftedness in inclusive schooling

Hedi Harju-Luukainen, Susanne Garvis and Jonna Kangas

Conclusion:

Navigating contested perspectives in special education: Promoting dialogue between different positions for the benefit of students in education
Øyvind Ibrahim Marøy Snipstad and Bente Hvidsten

Biography

Øyvind Ibrahim Marøy Snipstad is Associate Professor in Special Education, University of Inland Norway.

Bente Isabell Borthne Hvidsten is Associate Professor in Special Education, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and University of Inland Norway

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