The second edition of The SAGE Handbook of Special Education provides a comprehensive overview of special education, offering a wide range of views on key issues from all over the world. The contributors bring together up-to-date theory, research and innovations in practice, with an emphasis on future directions for the role of special education in a global context of inclusion.

Table of Contents

• Editorial Advisors
• About the Editor and Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Volume 1
• SECTION I HOW SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS ARE UNDERSTOOD
• 1 Reimagining Special Education: Why New Approaches are Needed - Lani Florian
• 2 Confronting Difference: A Brief History of Special Education - Margaret A. Winzer
• 3 Models of Service Delivery and Forms of Provision - Tony Cline Norah Frederickson
• 4 Categories of Special Educational Needs - Brahm Norwich
• 5 The Disproportionate Placement of Ethnic Minorities in Special Education - Beth Harry
• 6 A Sociological Perspective on Special Education - Sheila Riddell
• 7 Social Justice in Education for Students with Disabilities - David J. Connor
• SECTION II THE CHALLENGE OF INCLUSION
• 8 Disability Rights in Education - Marcia Rioux
• 9 Inclusive Education: From Targeting Groups and Schools to Achieving Quality Education as the Core of EFA - Renato Opertti Zachary Walker Yi Zhang
• 10 From Special Education to Effective Schools for All: Widening the Agenda - Mel Ainscow
• 11 Sui Ban Jiu Du: An Approach Toward Inclusive Education in China - Chunling Liu Xueyun Su
• 12 Entry, Engagement, and Empowerment: Dilemmas for Inclusive Education in an Indian Context - Nidhi Singal
• 13 Inclusive Schooling as an Apprenticeship in Democacy? - Roger Slee
• 14 Equity in Inclusive Education: A Cultural Historical Comparative Perspective - Elizabeth Kozleski Alfredo Artiles Federico Waitoller
• 15 How Special Needs Funding Can Support Inclusive Education - Sip Jan Pijl
• SECTION III KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
• Perspectives on learning
• 16 Epistemology and Special Education - Gary Thomas
• 17 Persistent Issues in Behavioral Theory and Practice - John W. Maag
• 18 Sociocultural Views of Learning - J. S. de Valenzuela
• 19 Educational Neuroscience: Bridging the Gulf Between Basic Research and Implications for Practice - Usha Goswami
• Research perspectives
• 20 Comparative and International Perspectives on Special Education - Justin J. W. Powell
• 21 A Disability Studies Frame for Research Approaches in Special Education - Douglas Biklen Fernanda Orsati Jessica Bacon
• 22 The Applied Science of Special Education: Quantitative Approaches, the Questions They Address, and How They Inform Practice - Samuel L. Odom Kathleen Lynne Lane
• 23 Researching Inclusive Classroom Practices: The Framework For Participation - Kristine Black-Hawkins
• 24 Research and Pupil Voice - Jill Porter
• 25 Using the Capability Approach to Evaluate the Well-being of Adult Learners with Dis/abilities - Barbara Ridley Michael F. Watts
• Volume 2
• SECTION IV TEACHING AND LEARNING
• Pedagogical approaches and curricular considerations
• 26 Learning Without Limits: Constructing a Pedagogy Free from Determinist Beliefs about Ability - Susan Hart Mary Jane Drummond
• 27 Nothing Special: The Everyday Pedagogy of Teaching - Jonathan Rix Kieron Sheehy
• 28 Universal Design for Learning - David H. Rose Jenna W. Gravel David T. Gordon
• 29 Curriculum Considerations in Meeting the Educational Needs of Learners with Severe Intellectual Disabilities - Jean Ware
• Assessment
• 30 Beyond Categories and Labels: Knowledge to Support Assessment for Learning. ‘Disability’ – A Problem Well Put? - Judith Hollenweger
• 31 Assessment for Learning and the Journey Towards Inclusion - Louise Hayward
• 32 Self-Assessment as an ‘Insider’ Lens for Learning and Assessment - Roseanna Bourke Mandia Mentis
• 33 Dynamic Assessment and Cognitive Intervention - Alex Kozulin
• 34 Expanding Approaches to Summative Assessment for Students with Impairment - J. Joy Cumming Graham S. Maxwell
• Phases of education
• 35 Instructional and Assessment Accommodations in the 21st Century - Martha L. Thurlow
• 36 Teaching and Learning in the Early Years - Susan A. Fowler Michaelene M. Ostrosky Tweety J. Yates
• 37 Teaching Elementary Students with Learning Difficulties - Sharon Vaughn Jeanne Wanzek Carolyn A. Denton
• 38 Secondary Special Education and Inclusive Practices: Pitfalls and Potential for the Success of All - Lisa A. Dieker Selma Powell
• 39 Students with Disabilities in Postsecondary Education - Robert Stodden Kelly Roberts
• Cross-phase issues of teaching and learning
• 40 Teacher Assistants in Inclusive Classrooms - Michael F. Giangreco Mary Beth Doyle Jesse C. Suter
• 41 Assistive Technology to Provide Access to the Curriculum and Increase Independence - Amy G. Dell Deborah A. Newton
• 42 Mobile Learning and Games in Special Education - Penny Standen David Brown
• 43 The Evolving Use of Technology in Special Education: Is ‘Effectiveness’ the Right question? - John Woodward Ralph Ferretti
• 44 Friendships and Peer Relations Among and Between Children and Young People With and Without Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities - Dawn B. Male
• 45 Finding a Voice: Families’ Roles in Schools - Dianne L. Ferguson Amy N. Hanreddy Philip M. Ferguson
• 46 Inter-agency Working and Special Education: Beyond ‘Virtuous’ Ideas of Partnership towards Alternative Frameworks for Collaborative Work with Children - Liz Todd
• SECTION V FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
• 47 Education Without Condescension: Philosophy, Personhood and Cognitive Disability - Ruth Cigman
• 48 Challenging Orthodoxy in Special Education: On Longstanding Debates and Philosophical Divides Revisited - Deborah J. Gallagher
• 49 What do Classroom Teachers Need to Know about Meeting Special Educational Needs? - Ruth Kershner
• 50 The Professional Knowledge of Inclusive Special Educators - Kari Nes
• 51 Inquiry and Community: Uncommon Opportunities to Enrich Professional Development for Inclusion - Marleen C. Pugach Linda P. Blanton
• 52 Changing Perspectives of Special Education in the Evolving Context of Standards-Based Reforms in the US and England - Margaret J. McLaughlin Alan Dyson
• 53 Medicalization in Schools - Valerie Harwood Samantha McMahon
• 54 Special Education and its Contribution to the Broader Discourse of Education - Seamus Hegarty
• Glossary - Cristina Devecchi