This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last eighteen years. It includes over twenty essential articles from the journal Disability and Society, written by many of the leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and Europe.
Compiled by the current editors of the journal, it is divided into three sections which mirror the three central themes:
disability studies - clearly illustrates the debates and challenges that have emerged within the field over the last two decades
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This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last eighteen years. It includes over twenty ...
"The British Journal of Sociology of Education" has established itself as the leading discipline-based publication. This collection of selected articles published since the first issue provides the reader with an informed insight and understanding of the nature, range and value of sociological thinking, and its development over the last 25 years, as well as the analysis of the relationship between society and education. The book is divided into four sections, each with a theme: - Social theory and education - Social inequality and education - Sociology of institutions,...
"The British Journal of Sociology of Education" has established itself as the leading discipline-based publication. This collection of selected articl...
Over recent years there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in the general area of disability and disability studies amongst academics and researchers throughout the world. This has generated an increasingly expansive literature, from a variety of perspectives, including cultural studies, development studies, geography, history, philosophy, social policy, social psychology and sociology. Perhaps inevitably, given this heightened interest, a number of important challenges and debates have emerged which raise many significant questions for all those interested in this newly emergent...
Over recent years there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in the general area of disability and disability studies amongst academics and r...
Over recent years there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in the general area of disability and disability studies amongst academics and researchers throughout the world. This has generated an increasingly expansive literature, from a variety of perspectives, including cultural studies, development studies, geography, history, philosophy, social policy, social psychology and sociology. Perhaps inevitably, given this heightened interest, a number of important challenges and debates have emerged which raise many significant questions for all those interested in this newly emergent...
Over recent years there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in the general area of disability and disability studies amongst academics and r...
Intended to stimulate sociologically informed thinking about educating, this book has become firmly established in its field, winning places on reading lists for Education Studies, Initial Teacher Training and Continuing Professional Development courses. The book begins with a light-hearted taste of sociology, and then goes on to explorefive key areas of education: - the hidden curriculum - ideologies of educating - sociological perspectives and the study of education - educational life chances, and - the next learning system. This new edition includes sections on personalized learning,...
Intended to stimulate sociologically informed thinking about educating, this book has become firmly established in its field, winning places on readin...
One of the qualities of this book is the authors engagement with personal experience. This is part of the contextualising of issues within particular cultural, historical and social contexts. I shall begin the Foreword in the same spirit by recounting an experience that is still a foundation for analysing and developing my own understanding. This h- pened some twenty-five years ago. I was going with Vic Finkelstein, a disabled a- demic and activist, to a seminar, on a hot summer s day, making our way across the Open University campus in Milton Keynes. The seminar was entitled The Problems of...
One of the qualities of this book is the authors engagement with personal experience. This is part of the contextualising of issues within particular ...
One of the disturbing messages of this book is the extent to which disabled people are suffering in society. It looks at the socio-economic issues involved as well as the personal aspects of their lives and offers solutions to the discriminating relations and practices experienced.
One of the disturbing messages of this book is the extent to which disabled people are suffering in society. It looks at the socio-economic issues inv...
This volume addresses the issue of voice in special education reserch, the voices of the researchers as well as those of the researched, and the ways in which research mediates identities. It follows on from the well-known and controversial Making Difficulties ( Paul Chapman Publishing).
This volume addresses the issue of voice in special education reserch, the voices of the researchers as well as those of the researched, and the ways ...
This volume addresses the issue of voice in special education reserch, the voices of the researchers as well as those of the researched, and the ways in which research mediates identities. It follows on from the well-known and controversial Making Difficulties ( Paul Chapman Publishing).
This volume addresses the issue of voice in special education reserch, the voices of the researchers as well as those of the researched, and the ways ...
