The construction of disability in our schools : : teacher and parent perspectives on the experience of labelled students / / by Kathryn Underwood.

This book is about the meaning of disability in schools. The experience of children with disabilities in schools has undergone substantial change over the last twenty years (and more) with many children who would have once been living in institutions now going to school alongside their peers. With t...

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Superior document:Studies in inclusive education ; volume 1
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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Studies in inclusive education series ; v. 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:"The research conducted for this book was part of work carried out at the University of Toronto"--Acknowledgements.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Individual, Situational and Socio-Political Constructions of Disability
  • Labelling, Diagnosing and Streaming
  • Do You Need Teaching To Learn?
  • Voices That Are Heard and the Politics of Collaboration
  • Outcomes, Achievement and Accountability
  • “I Just Want Him to be Happy”
  • How Disability is Constructed in Our Schools
  • Conclusions
  • ISP Scores
  • Names of subjects and table of relationship
  • Glossary of Acronyms
  • References
  • Index.