| Description |
xxii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Special education series |
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Special education series (New York, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Part I. Deconstructing/reconstructing the professions -- Theory/practice and objectivism : the modern view of the professions. Power/knowledge and pragmatism : a postmodern view of the professions / Thomas M. Skrtic -- Part II. Optional metatheories of special education and disability -- The functionalist view of special education and disability : deconstructing the conventional knowledge tradition / Thomas M. Skrtic -- The interpretivist view of special education and disability : the value of telling stories / Philip M. Ferguson and Dianne L. Ferguson -- The radical structuralist view of special education and disability : unpopular perspectives on their origins and development / Sally Tomlinson -- The radical humanist view of special education and disability : consciousness, freedom, and ideology / Dwight C. Kiel -- Part III. Optional theories of special education and disability -- Radical structuralist perspectives on the creation and use of learning disabilities / Christine E. Sleeter -- Holism and special education : there is no substitute for real life purposes and processes / Lous Heshusius -- Special education and student disability as organizational pathologies : toward a metatheory of school organization and change. Deconstructing/reconstructing public education : social reconstruction in the postmodern era / Thomas M. Skrtic. |
| Subject |
Special education.
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Students with disabilities.
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Skrtic, Thomas M.
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| Cover Title |
Disability & democracy |
| ISBN |
080773411X (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0807734101 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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