ABSTRACT

Until this book was published, most writing on special education was about specific disabilities and how to cope with them. This book, however, considers the broader context, looking at many problems for the wider system that have arisen through integration of special education within it. The book is international and comparative in its focus and includes much North American material and work by North American researchers.

part |22 pages

Ideologies, Issues and Practices

chapter |20 pages

The Mentally Retarded

Ideologies of Care and Surplus Population

chapter |30 pages

Comparative Special Education

Ideology, Differentiation and Allocation in England and the United States *

chapter |41 pages

The Differential Diagnosis of Special Education

Managing Social Pathology as Individual Disability

part |26 pages

The Nature and Uses of Qualitative Approaches

chapter |19 pages

Case Studies of Mainstreaming

A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Special Schooling *

chapter |36 pages

Adolescence and Physical Impairment

An Interactionist View *