Description
| Product ID: | 9781433104343 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Disability Studies in Education |
| Title: | Whatever Happened to Inclusion? |
| Subtitle: | The Place of Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Education |
| Authors: | Author: Philip Smith |
| Page Count: | 254 |
| Subjects: | Sociology, Sociology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Educational strategies and policy, Higher education, tertiary education, Teaching of students with physical impairments or disabilities, Child & developmental psychology, Educational strategies & policy, Colleges of further education, Teaching of physically disabled students |
| Description: | Reports on the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities from national and state perspectives, outlining the abject failure of schools to provide basic educational rights to students with significant disabilities in America. This book describes the changes that made in teacher preparation programs, policy, funding, and local schools. Law, policy, and practice in the United States has long held that students with disabilities – including those with intellectual disabilities – have the right to a free and appropriate public education, in a non-restrictive environment. Yet very few of these students are fully included in general education classrooms. Educational systems use loopholes to segregate students; universities regularly fail to train teachers to include students; and state regulators fail to provide the necessary leadership and funding to implement policies of inclusion. Whatever Happened to Inclusion? reports on the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities from national and state perspectives, outlining the abject failure of schools to provide basic educational rights to students with significant disabilities in America. The book then describes the changes that must be made in teacher preparation programs, policy, funding, and local schools to make the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities a reality. |
| Imprint Name: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-12-04 |
