The Sage Handbook of Special Education 1st Edition by Lani Florian ISBN 1446210537 978-1446210536

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ISBN 10: 1446210537 

ISBN 13:978-1446210536 

Author:  Lani Florian

 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.

This brand new edition features:

” New chapters on families, interagency collaboration and issues of lifelong learning

” The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

” Policy reform proposals

” Equity and social justice in education

” The impact of new thinking on assessment

” Issues and developments in classification

” The preparation and qualifications that teachers need

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.

Table of contents: 

Part I: How Special Educational Needs Are Understood

1. Reimagining Special Education – Why New Approaches are Needed

2. Confronting Difference: A Brief History of Special Education

3. Models of Service Delivery and Forms of Provision

4. Categories of Special Educational Needs

5. The Disproportionate Placement of Ethnic Minorities in Special Education

6. A Sociological Perspective on Special Education

7. Social Justice in Education for Students with Disabilities

Part II: The Challenge of Inclusion

8. Disability Rights in Education

9. Inclusive Education: From Targeting Groups and Schools to Achieving Quality Education as the Core of EFA

10. From Special Education to Effective Schools for All: Widening the Agenda

11. Sui Ban Jiu Du: An Approach Toward Inclusive Education in China

12. Entry, Engagement and Empowerment: Dilemmas for Inclusive Education in an Indian Context

13. Inclusive Schooling as a Means and End of Education?

14. Equity in Inclusive Education: A Cultural Historical Comparative Perspective

15. How Special Needs Funding Can Support Inclusive Education

Part III: Knowledge Production

16. Epistemology and Special Education

17. Persistent Issues in Behavioral Theory and Practice

18. Sociocultural Views of Learning

19. Educational Neuroscience: Bridging the Gulf Between Basic Research and Implications for Practice

20. Comparative and International Perspectives on Special Education

21. A Disability Studies Frame for Research Approaches in Special Education

22. The Applied Science of Special Education

23. Researching Inclusive Classroom Practices: The Framework For

24. Research and Pupil Voice

25. Using the Capability Approach to Evaluate the Well-being of Adult Learners with Dis/abilities Participation

Part IV: Issues of Teaching

26. Learning Without Limits: Constructing a Pedagogy Free from Determinist Beliefs about Ability

27. Nothing Special – The Everyday Pedagogy of Teaching

28. Universal Design for Learning

29. Curriculum Considerations in Meeting the Educational Needs of Learners with Severe Intellectual Disabilities

30. Beyond Categories and Labels: Knowledge to Support Assessment for Learning. Disability – A Problem Well Put?

31. Assessment for Learning and the Journey Towards Inclusion

32. Self-Assessment as an ‘Insider’ Lens for Learning and Assessment

33. Dynamic Assessment and Cognitive Intervention

34. Expanding Approaches to Summative Assessment for Students with Impairment

35. Instructional and Assessment Accommodations in the 21st Century

36. Teaching and Learning in the Early Years

37. Teaching Elementary Students with Learning Difficulties

38. Secondary Special Education and Inclusive Practice

39. Students with Disabilities in Postsecondary Education

40. Teacher Assistants in Inclusive Classrooms

41. Assistive Technology to Provide Access to the Curriculum and Increase Independence

42. Mobile Learning and Games in Special Education

43. The Evolving Use of Technology in Special Education: Is “Effectiveness” the Right Question?

44. Friendships and Peer Relations Among and Between Children and Young People With and Without Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities

45. Finding a Voice: Families Roles in Schools

46. Interagency Working and Special Education

Part V: Future Directions For Research and Practice

47. Education Without Condescension: Philosophy, Personhood and Cognitive Disability

48. Challenging Orthodoxy in Special Education: On Longstanding Debates and Philosophical Divides Revisited

49. What do Classroom Teachers Need to Know about Meeting Special Educational Needs?

50. The Professional Knowledge of Special Educators

51. Inquiry and Community: Uncommon Opportunities to Enrich Professional Development for Inclusion

52. Changing Perspectives of Special Education in the Evolving Context of Standards-Based Reforms in the US and England

53. Medicalization in Schools

54. Special Education and its Contribution to the Broader Discourse of Education

55. Glossary

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