This work seeks to explore how disability is understood and the position and experiences of disabled people both within and across different societies. The authors: explore the question of politics in relation to specific struggles, providing a wealth of insights and ideas; examine the nature and value of a social model of disability; criticize exclusionary barriers while advancing a more democratic and participatory society based on principles of equality; and offer cross-cultural insights and present stimuli for debate and further research.
This work seeks to explore how disability is understood and the position and experiences of disabled people both within and across different societies...
One problem which continues to absorb social scientists is the way in which so much social deprivation stems from racial or class status. The discussion in this book is developed in two ways: firstly, careful attention is given to an examination of the way minority groups create and maintain collective identities and action. Secondly, the relationship between this movement and such topics as racism in schools, schooling, unemployment and West Indian involvement in sporting rather than academic activities is analysed, together with the nature of the educational experience of different class...
One problem which continues to absorb social scientists is the way in which so much social deprivation stems from racial or class status. The discussi...
Although the different contributions to this book range over a wide spectrum of substantive issues, they share a common interest. This is a concern to explore the ways in which notions of the relations between theory and practice, between belief and action, can be used to develop three kinds of sensitivity in the sociology of education. A sensitivity towards how school systems are created, maintained and made to function; towards developing a more refined, critical and constructive awareness of the reliability and validity of descriptions, analyses and explanations offered in this field of...
Although the different contributions to this book range over a wide spectrum of substantive issues, they share a common interest. This is a concern to...
Originally written at a time of crisis in the education system of Britain - occasioned by cuts, contradictions and change - many of the issues discussed in this book are still relevant today. Debate in the book focuses upon an examination of the nature of the crisis, an exploration of the impact of the crisis upon school processes and upon the relationship between life in school and in the wider community, an investigation of the responses being made by pupils, teachers and educationalists to the day-to-day manifestations of the crisis and a consideration of how the current crisis is giving a...
Originally written at a time of crisis in the education system of Britain - occasioned by cuts, contradictions and change - many of the issues discuss...
Until this book was published, most writing on special education was about specific disabilities and how to cope with them. This book, however, considers the broader context, looking at many problems for the wider system that have arisen through integration of special education within it. The book is international and comparative in its focus and includes much North American material and work by North American researchers.
Until this book was published, most writing on special education was about specific disabilities and how to cope with them. This book, however, consid...
This volume considers how various sociological approaches to the exploration of the conditions of teachers' might be co-ordinated so as to produce a more penetrating and reliable understanding of the main dimensions of teachers' work. Three dimensions are selected for special attention: historical, institutional and interactional contexts in which teachers operate. In different way the papers in this collection explore the contribution such an investigation of these contexts can make to our understanding of wider educational concerns.
This volume considers how various sociological approaches to the exploration of the conditions of teachers' might be co-ordinated so as to produce a m...
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
policy offers a...
This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last eighteen years. It includes over twenty ...
First published in 1983, Gender, Class and Education is a collection of papers that formed presentations at the Westhill Sociology of Education Conference in January 1982, and is the fifth such collection to emerge from the annual conference. The conference theme, 'Race, Class and Gender', was not only chosen because of its topicality, but also to provide a framework for debate between educational researchers and teachers. The papers focus on the reproduction of gender relations through education and provide important insights into how this process works, how it is resisted in...
First published in 1983, Gender, Class and Education is a collection of papers that formed presentations at the Westhill Sociology of Educat...
One problem which continues to absorb social scientists is the way in which so much social deprivation stems from racial or class status. The discussion in this book is developed in two ways: firstly, careful attention is given to an examination of the way minority groups create and maintain collective identities and action. Secondly, the relationship between this movement and such topics as racism in schools, schooling, unemployment and West Indian involvement in sporting rather than academic activities is analysed, together with the nature of the educational experience of different class...
One problem which continues to absorb social scientists is the way in which so much social deprivation stems from racial or class status. The discussi...
Originally written at a time of crisis in the education system of Britain - occasioned by cuts, contradictions and change - many of the issues discussed in this book are still relevant today. Debate in the book focuses upon an examination of the nature of the crisis, an exploration of the impact of the crisis upon school processes and upon the relationship between life in school and in the wider community, an investigation of the responses being made by pupils, teachers and educationalists to the day-to-day manifestations of the crisis and a consideration of how the current crisis is giving a...
Originally written at a time of crisis in the education system of Britain - occasioned by cuts, contradictions and change - many of the issues discuss...
