Rethinking Professional Issues in Special Education
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Rethinking Professional Issues in Special Education
By (Author) James L. Paul
Edited by Carolyn D. Lavely
Edited by Ann Cranston-Gingras
Edited by Ella L. Taylor
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th July 2002
United States
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Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Teacher training
371.9
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Paperback
368
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Provides students preparing for careers as special educators with an analysis of some of the basic professional and policy issues being rethought in the context of the beginning of the 21st century. Special educators are facing new challenges at the beginning of the 21st century as public education is being reformed by a vision focusing on measurable student outcomes. The future course of the field will be shaped by the policy and programmatic responses to several issues, including demographic changes in student populations, a lack of certified special education teachers, criticism in the public media for the rising costs of services, and debates about the preferred philosophy of service delivery for students with disabilities. Additional chapters discuss university-school collaboration, charter schools, disability studies, school violence, disproportionality in placement, male African-American teachers, and ethics. This book has been written out of a context of research and program development activities with public schools over the past decade in one of the largest Colleges of Education in a diverse metropolitan areas in the country. The issues selected for analysis and the perspective guiding those analyses grew out of this work and out of a national Delphi study of the views of parents and constituent organizations and leading researchers, teacher educators, and policy makers in Special Education.
Author Bio
JAMES L. PAUL is a Professor of Special Education at the University of South Florida and formerly chair of the Department of Special Education. CAROLYN D. LAVELY is a Professor of Special Education at the University of South Florida. ANN CRANSTON-GINGRAS is an Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of South Florida. ELLA L. TAYLOR coordinates the University of South Florida's online master's degree program in gifted education as well as teaches Special Education courses.
