Disabling Policies?: A Comparative Approach To Education Policy And Disability (routledge Library Editions: Children And Disability)

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. 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 Pt. 1. Theorizing -- pt. 2. Local practices -- pt. 3. Comparisons -- pt. 4. Conclusions and an agenda