Beschreibung:
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field.
1. Introduction: A Sociological perspective 2. Class Analysis and Colonial Immigrants 3. A Sociology of Special Education. 4. The expansion of special Education 5 Conflicts and Dilemmas for Professionals in special education. 6 The Irresistible rise of the SEN industry 7 The Radical-Structuralist view of special education 8 Race and special education 9 The British national identity 10 Educational reforms-ideologies and visions 11 Home-School links 12 Education in a Post-welfare society 13 Low Attainers in a global knowledge economy 14 Disability in Somaliland