From integration to inclusion : a history of special education in the 20th century / Margret A. Winzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winzer, M. A. (Margret A.), 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Special education--United States--History--20th century.

Special education.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 292 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Since Margret A. Winzer wrote her landmark work The History of Special Education, much has transpired in this field, which she again has captured in a remarkable display of scholarship in this volume. Her new study focuses chiefly on the significant events of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in the United States and Canada. Its key dynamics consist of a retrospective overview of the paradigms that emerged from and shaped special education; a critical assessment of past progress and reform, including failures and disappointments; and an analysis of the theoretical diversity within the discipline.

In this stand-alone volume, Winzer juxtaposes the historical study of disability and of special schooling and service provision with reference to broader social systems, protocols, and practices. She documents how prevailing emotional and intellectual climates influence disability and schooling while also considering the social, political, and ideological factors that affect educational theory and practice. Winzer recognizes that reform has been the Zeitgeist of the history of special education. Crucial problems such as defining exceptional conditions and separating them from one another were formulated in contexts organized along moral, theological, legislative, medical, and social dimensions. Though many of these reforms failed for various reasons, Winzer thoroughly explains how they evolved from the long and honorable pedigree that the field of special education has possessed since its earliest antecedents.

Contents:

Revisiting the 19th century

Changing directions

The politics of biology

The development of special classes

Turning points

Handling "the holdbacks and the drags"

Going to public school

The professionalization of special education

The era of inclusion

Appendix A: chronology of developments in special education

Appendix B: summary of U.S. federal legislation on special education, 1879-2004.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781563683657

1563683652

OCLC:

262892110