Disabling Policies? - A Comparative Approach to Education Policy and Disability

First published in 1989, this book is about integrating or mainstreaming policies, looking specifically at how to improve circumstances for schoolchildren with disabilities or handicaps, and their teachers.

The author draws on her experiences, both within and outside the academic institution, to conceptualise and theorise policy, so as to place this policy in a political framework and locate it in a wider model of social life. This model is then used to disentangle the nature and effects of policy practices surrounding integration and mainstreaming, looking at practice in various parts of Europe, the US and Australia, at that time. Although written at the end of the 1980s, this book discusses topics that are still relevant today.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; List of Tables and Figures; Introduction; Part I: Theorizing 1. Theorizing disability 2. Theorizing integration and mainstreaming Part II: Local practices 3. Scandinavian policy practices 4. Californian policy practices 5. English policy practices 6. Victorian policy practices Part III: Comparisons 7. Comparative issues Part IV: Conclusions and an agenda 8. Conclusions Index

Summary

First published in 1989, this book is about integrating or mainstreaming policies, looking specifically at how to improve circumstances for schoolchildren with disabilities or handicaps, and their teachers. Although written at the end of the 1980s, this book discusses topics that are still relevant today.

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Fulcher, Fulcher Gillian
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2017
• EAN: 9781138951396
• ISBN: 978-1-138-95139-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Children and Disability
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Nursing, Personal & public health, Social welfare & social services, Disability: social aspects, Medical Sociology, Personal and public health / health education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disability, HEALTH & FITNESS / Children & Adolescents, Social welfare, social policy and social services