The SAGE Handbook of Special Education

Author Lani Florian

Publisher Sage UK

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2nd Edition 1st Edition

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Author

Lani Florian

Publisher

Sage UK

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Edition

2

Copyright

2014

ISBN13

9781446296998

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eBook

Grade Level

College Freshman - College Senior

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The second edition of The SAGE Handbook of Special Education provides a comprehensive overview of special education, offering a wide range of views on key issues from all over the world. The contributors bring together up-to-date theory, research and innovations in practice, with an emphasis on future directions for the role of special education in a global context of inclusion. The Handbook's breadth, clarity and academic rigour will make it essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students, and also for practitioners, teachers, school managers and administrators.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Editorial Advisors.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of Figures and Tables.
About the Editor and Contributors.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Endorsements.
Introduction.
1: How Special Educational Needs are Understood.
2: Reimagining Special Education: Why New Approaches are Needed.
3: Confronting Difference: A Brief History of Special Education.
4: Models of Service Delivery and Forms of Provision.
5: Categories of Special Educational Needs.
6: The Disproportionate Placement of Ethnic Minorities in Special Education.
7: A Sociological Perspective on Special Education.
8: Social Justice In Education For Students With Disabilities.
9: The Challenge of Inclusion.
10: Disability Rights in Education.
11: Inclusive Education: From Targeting Groups and Schools to Achieving Quality Education as the Core of EFA.
12: From Special Education to Effective Schools for All: Widening the Agenda.
13: Sui Ban Jiu Du: An Approach Toward Inclusive Education in China.
14: Entry, Engagement and Empowerment: Dilemmas for Inclusive Education in an Indian Context.
15: Inclusive Schooling as an Apprenticeship in Democracy?.
16: Equity in Inclusive Education: A Cultural Historical Comparative Perspective.
17: How Special Needs Funding Can Support Inclusive Education.
18: Knowledge Production.
19: Perspectives on learning.
20: Epistemology and Special Education.
21: Persistent Issues in Behavioral Theory and Practice.
22: Sociocultural Views of Learning.
23: Educational Neuroscience: Bridging the Gulf between Basic Research and Implications for Practice.
24: Research perspectives.
25: Comparative and International Perspectives on Special Education.
26: A Disability Studies Frame for Research Approaches in Special Education.
27: The Applied Science of Special Education: Quantitative Approaches, the Questions They Address, and How They Inform Practice.
28: Researching Inclusive Classroom Practices: The Framework for Participation.
29: Research and Pupil Voice
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The SAGE Handbook of Special Education

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