| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. International and cross-national contexts within the current use of disability classification. Disability classification in education / Lani Florian and Margaret J. McLaughlin -- Cross-national comparisons of special education classification systems / Judith Hollenweger -- A supply-side approach for a resource-based classification system / Serge Ebersold and Peter Evans -- Evolving dilemmas about categorization / Klaus Wedell -- Disability classification, categorization in education: a US perspective / Philip J. Burke and Kristin Ruedel -- Implications for human and civil rights entitlements: stigma, stereotypes, and civil rights in disability classification systems; Implications for human and civil rights entitlements: disability classification systems and the law of special education / Diana C. Pullin -- The classification of pupils at the educational margins in Scotland: shifting categories and frameworks / Sheila Riddell -- pt. 2. Interaction and impacts of classification policies on educational systems. Perspectives and purposes of disability classification systems: implications for teachers and curriculum and pedagogy / Brahm Norwich -- Disability classification and teacher education / Michael L. Hardman and John McDonnell -- Disproportionality in special education: a transatlantic phenomenon / Alan Dyson and Elizabeth B. Kozleski -- Classification of children with disabilities in the context of performance-based educational reform: an unintended classification system / Katherine Nagle and Martha L. Thurlow -- pt. 3. New approaches to the classification dilemma. "International classification of functioning, disability and health for children and youth": a common language for special education / Rune J. Simeonsson, Nancy E. Simeonsson, and Judith Hollenweger -- Learning disabilities in the United States: operationalizing a construct / Deborah L. Speece -- Beyond the dilemma of difference: the capability approach in disability and special educational needs / Lorella Terzi -- Concluding thoughts: on perspectives and purposes of disability classification systems in education / Martyn Rouse, Kelly Henderson, and Louis Danielson. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Children with disabilities -- Education -- Congresses.
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Children with disabilities -- Classification -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Florian, Lani.
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McLaughlin, Margaret J.
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| ISBN |
9781441653659 electronic bk. |
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1441653651 electronic bk. |
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