Review of Educational Research · 1997 · 321 citations · 120 references
EducationSpecial EducationDisabilityInclusive EducationSpecial Education PolicyEducation For Children With DisabilitiesInclusion PolicyInclusive PracticeSocial InclusionSpecial Education InclusionIdeological Justification
The reviewed scholars advocate a continuum of special education services, insist that only empirical research should guide practice, express skepticism toward inclusion, and label inclusion proponents as political and ideological. This article contests the presumed neutrality of the special education status quo and questions the moral basis of the reviewed authors’ stance. The authors analyze the 13 articles and 5 book chapters using ideological theory to expose the ideological underpinnings of the scholars’ arguments. The article recommends that educators critically examine how their educational preferences affect the most vulnerable students to achieve equity.
This critical review focuses on 13 articles and 5 book chapters by prominent special education scholars. These authors write in support of a continuum of special education services and recommend that only the results of empirical research should inform special education practice. They also express wariness about the concept of inclusion and the direction of the inclusion movement. In touting the superiority of their own scholarship, they accuse inclusion supporters of being political, subjective, and ideological. This article challenges the supposed neutrality of the special education status quo and the moral grounding of the reviewed authors’ position. Drawing from the insights of theorists who study ideology, the analysis sheds light on the ideological nature of the reviewed authors’ own writing. The major recommendation put forth in this article is that scholars and other professionals need to think seriously about the impact of their educational preferences on the least powerful members of society if equity in schooling is to be realized.
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The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
Charles Tilly, Peter Stallybrass, Allon White · The American Historical Review · 1988 · 3.3K citations