First published in 1989, this book is about integrating or mainstreaming policies, looking specifically at how to improve circumstances for schoolchildren with disabilities or handicaps, and their teachers.
The author draws on her experiences, both within and outside the academic institution, to conceptualise and theorise policy, so as to place this policy in a political framework and locate it in a wider model of social life. This model is then used to disentangle the nature and effects of policy practices surrounding integration and mainstreaming, looking at practice in various parts of Europe, the US and Australia, at that time. Although written at the end of the 1980s, this book discusses topics that are still relevant today.
Author(s): Gillian Fulcher
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Children and Disability
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 302
City: Abingdon/New York
Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Original Title......Page 6
Original Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Series Editor's Preface......Page 12
List of Tables and Figures......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
PART ONE: Theorizing......Page 34
1 Theorizing disability......Page 36
2 Theorizing integration and mainstreaming......Page 63
PART TWO: Local practices......Page 76
3 Scandinavian policy practices......Page 78
4 Californian policy practices......Page 115
5 English policy practices......Page 173
6 Victorian policy practices......Page 201
PART THREE: Comparisons......Page 258
7 Comparative issues......Page 260
PART FOUR: Conclusions and an agenda......Page 272
8 Conclusions......Page 274
Index......Page 298
