Full Description
Special educators are facing new challenges at the beginning of the 21st century as public education is being reformed by a vision focusing on measurable student outcomes. The future course of the field will be shaped by the policy and programmatic responses to several issues, including demographic changes in student populations, a lack of certified special education teachers, criticism in the public media for the rising costs of services, and debates about the preferred philosophy of service delivery for students with disabilities. Additional chapters discuss university-school collaboration, charter schools, disability studies, school violence, disproportionality in placement, male African-American teachers, and ethics.
This book has been written out of a context of research and program development activities with public schools over the past decade in one of the largest Colleges of Education in a diverse metropolitan area in the country. The issues selected for analysis and the perspective guiding those analyses grew out of this work and out of a national Delphi study of the views of parents and constituent organizations and leading researchers, teacher educators, and policy makers in Special Education.
Contents
Preface by James L. Paul and Ann Cranston-Gingras To Improve or Reconstruct Special Education: Issues Facing the Field by James L. Paul and Ann Cranston-Gingras The Demographics of Special Education by Harold Hodgkinson Interventions and Children with Special Needs by James J. Gallagher High-Stakes Testing and the Distortion of Care by Nel Noddings From the Old to the New Paradigm of Disability and Families: Research to Enhance Family Quality of Life by Ann P. Turnbull and H.R. Turnbull Addressing Home, School, and Community Violence for Children with Disabilities by Zena H. Rudo, Vestena Robbins, and Denise Smith Informing Professional Issues in Special Education Through Disability Studies by Ann Cranston-Gingras and Crystal Roberts Ladwig The Teacher Variable: Who Makes Education Special by James L. Paul and Patricia A. Parrish The Reflective Self: Becoming a Special Educator by Patricia Fagan and Ella L. Taylor Preparing African-American Male Teachers for Urban Special Education Environments by Brenda L. Townsend and Karen M. Harris Collaborative Professional Development Partnerships by Karen Colucci, Betty Epanchin, and Kathy Laframboise The Use of Educational Technology and Assistive Devices in Special Education by Barbara L. Loeding The Utilization of Distance Learning and Technology for Teaching Children with Disabilities by Michael W. Curton and Lynn Rejniak Charter Schools and Their Impact on Special Education by Myrrha Pammer, Lynn Lavely, and Cathy Wooley-Brown Reading the History of Special Education by Sherman Dorn Ethics and Special Education by James L. Paul, Peter French, and Ann Cranston-Gingras
