Tales from School : Learning Disability and State Education after Administrative Reform / edited by Rod Wills, Missy Morton, Margaret McLean, Maxine Stephenson, Roger Slee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wills, Rod., Editor.

Morton, Missy, Editor.

McLean, Margaret, Editor.

Stephenson, Maxine., Editor.

Slee, Roger, Editor.

Series:

Studies in Inclusive Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a book about the struggle of many New Zealand families to have their children with learning disabilities included in local community schools. It reviews the influences in the post war period that shaped the state response to the right of all children to attend school. Reflections from both education policy makers and parents of that time are included. The book also examines the more recent impact of neoliberal politics on education policy and the consequences experienced by families with school-aged children with disabilities who may well become ‘collateral damage in the enterprise of improving schools.’ After examining the families’ experience the book asks how inclusion can be fostered in schools and classrooms? Practitioners and academics present research findings that indicate alternative ways of thinking and acting that attest to more ethical and humane responses to human difference. Citizens, school personnel, politicians and policy makers should be challenged by the tales from school arising from attempts to achieve a ‘world class, inclusive education system.’ Cover photograph by Rod Wills, “Oratia District School”.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Rod Wills , Missy Morton , Margaret McLean , Maxine Stephenson and Roger Slee

Introduction / Rod Wills , Missy Morton , Margaret McLean , Maxine Stephenson and Roger Slee

Understandings for Today / Maxine Stephenson

Legitimating Exclusion / Maxine Stephenson

Parents, Professionals and Schooling / Maxine Stephenson and Charlotte Thomson

Special Education and the Changing Role of the State 1984-1989 / Colleen Brown

Thinking About Our Children / Rod Wills

Reforming Special Education at the Local School / Rod Wills

Section 10 Appeals: A Safety Net or a Holey Promise? / Colleen Brown

The Problematics of Inclusive Education in New Zealand Today / Rod Wills and Stephen A. Rosenbaum

Limiting the Definition and the Discourse / Christopher McMaster

Parent Struggles with Education and the School System / Margaret McLean

Is Anyone Listening? / Diane Mara

Parent-School Relationships and the Exclusion of Disabled Students from and Within school / Alison Kearney

Parents of Disabled Children Talk about Their Experiences of Partnership After Special Education 2000 / Margaret McLean , Gerlinde Andraschko , Elizabeth Elsworth , Judith Harris , Judith Selvaraj and Colin Webster

How ‘Specialese’ Maintains Dual Education Systems in Aotearoa, New Zealand / Bernadette Macartney

Pushing the Stone up the Hill / Rod Wills , Bernadette Macartney and Colleen Brown

Resisting Neoliberalism / Missy Morton

Relational and Culturally Responsive, Indigenous Approach to Belonging and Inclusion / Mere Berryman

Flying under the Radar / Anne-Marie Mcilroy and Annie Guerin

Tales from the Market / Colin Gladstone

Questions of Value(s) / Gill Rutherford

Inclusion, Disability and Culture / Angus Macfarlane , Sonja Macfarlane and Gail Gillon

The Struggle for Inclusion in Aotearoa / Roger Slee

Contributors / Rod Wills , Missy Morton , Margaret McLean , Maxine Stephenson and Roger Slee

Index / Rod Wills , Missy Morton , Margaret McLean , Maxine Stephenson and Roger Slee.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789462098930

946209893X

OCLC:

898894461