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Title Tales from school : learning disability and state education after administrative reform / edited by Rod Wills (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Missy Morton (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Margaret McLean (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Maxine Stephenson (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and Roger Slee (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia)
Published Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in inclusive education ; volume 27
Studies in inclusive education (Sense Publishers) ; v. 27.
Contents Legitimating exclusion: compulsory education, the standards and the experts / Maxine Stephenson -- Parents, professionals and schooling / Maxine Stephenson with Charlotte Thomson -- Special education and the changing role of the state 1984-1989 / Colleen Brown -- Reforming special education at the local school: getting ideas about difference sorted out / Rod Wills
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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Learning disabled children -- New Zealand
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Learning disabled children
New Zealand
Form Electronic book
Author Wills, Rod, editor
Morton, Missy, editor
McLean, Margaret, editor
Stephenson, Maxine, editor
Slee, Roger, editor
ISBN 9789462098930
946209893X