Description
Book SynopsisThis revised edition of a popular text offers students an updated and comprehensive overview across special education. It critically examines the intellectual foundations of special education and considers the consequences of their influence for professional and popular thinking about learning difficulties. The chapters place inclusion within a social and political context to highlight how concepts have been influences by theory and ideology across the years.
The book offers guidance to students on specific issues such as reading and behavioural difficulties with theoretically grounded information. With a fresh chapter discussing current research, intersectionality and increased marketisation within education this book reflects the new landscape and legislation of special education.
âœEssential reading for anyone studying or working in either special or inclusive educationâ Few could build the case as well as Thomas and Loxley.â
Melanie Nind, Profess
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 The ‘theory’ behind special education
2 The knowledge-roots of special education
3 Intersections
4 Children’s behaviour at school: it’s strange. But why do we expect anything else?
5 Thinking and research about learning failure, especially in reading
6 Modelling difference and diversity
7 Policy, politics and paradox
8 Against inclusion?
9 Inclusive education in the twenty-first century
10 Conclusion
