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Rethinking Professional Issues in Special Education _
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James L. Paul, ed., Carolyn D. Lavely, ed., Ann Cranston-Gingras, Ella L. Taylor, ed.
ISBN: 1-56750-627-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-627-3
368 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 7/30/2002
List Price: $45.00 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
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Media Type: Paperback
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: 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 area 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface by James L. Paul and Ann Cranston-Gingras
    To Improve or Reconstruct Special Education: Issues Facing the Field by James L. Paul and Ann Cranston-Gingras
    The Demographics of Special Education by Harold Hodgkinson
    Interventions and Children with Special Needs by James J. Gallagher
    High-Stakes Testing and the Distortion of Care by Nel Noddings
    From the Old to the New Paradigm of Disability and Families: Research to Enhance Family Quality of Life by Ann P. Turnbull and H.R. Turnbull
    Addressing Home, School, and Community Violence for Children with Disabilities by Zena H. Rudo, Vestena Robbins, and Denise Smith
    Informing Professional Issues in Special Education Through Disability Studies by Ann Cranston-Gingras and Crystal Roberts Ladwig
    The Teacher Variable: Who Makes Education Special by James L. Paul and Patricia A. Parrish
    The Reflective Self: Becoming a Special Educator by Patricia Fagan and Ella L. Taylor
    Preparing African-American Male Teachers for Urban Special Education Environments by Brenda L. Townsend and Karen M. Harris
    Collaborative Professional Development Partnerships by Karen Colucci, Betty Epanchin, and Kathy Laframboise
    The Use of Educational Technology and Assistive Devices in Special Education by Barbara L. Loeding
    The Utilization of Distance Learning and Technology for Teaching Children with Disabilities by Michael W. Curton and Lynn Rejniak
    Charter Schools and Their Impact on Special Education by Myrrha Pammer, Lynn Lavely, and Cathy Wooley-Brown
    Reading the History of Special Education by Sherman Dorn
    Ethics and Special Education by James L. Paul, Peter French, and Ann Cranston-Gingras
About the Author: JAMES L. PAUL is a Professor of Special Education at the University of South Florida and formerly chair of the Department of Special Education. He is the co-editor of Stories Out of School: Memories and Reflections on Care and Cruelty in the Classroom (Ablex, 2000).

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.
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