New Perspectives in Special Education : Contemporary Philosophical Debates (Paperback)

About the author  Acknowledgements  Preface  Chapter outlines  1. Setting the scene  2. Contemporary special education and its critics  3. Positivism and empiricism  4. Phenomenology and hermeneutics  5. Historical materialism and critical theory  6. Holism and constructivism  7. Structuralism and post structuralism  8. Pragmatism and symbolic interactionism  9. Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan  10. Postmodernism and historical epistemology  11. Positivist special education and other perspectives  12. Implications for special education of different perspectives  Bibliography  Index