Disability and Democracy: Reconstructing (special) Education for Postmodernity
- ISBN-10
- 0807734101
- ISBN-13
- 9780807734100
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 290
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Author
- Thomas M. Skrtic
Description
The text examines current practice in special education from a variety of metatheoretical perspectives: functionalism, interpretivism, radical structuralism, and radical humanism. Part 1 deconstructs the professions by showing how they are undermined by postmodern theories of knowledge, and proposes pragmatism as a method for reconstructing the profession of education. Part 2 describes special education, disability, and social justice from a variety of modern perspectives. Part 3 presents alternative modern and postmodern ways of reframing the problem of school failure, and proposes a new organizational form for schools that, informed by pragmatism, would enable a critical reconstruction of special education, public education, and contemporary society.
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