Dimitris Anastasiou
Biographic Data
| ID | 1149355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitris Anastasiou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitris |
| FAMILY NAME | Anastasiou |
| SIGNATURE | ANASTASIOU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4840-1693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Tribute to a Towering Figure in Special Education
Dr [...]
Macroprudential policies and discouraged borrowers
Uncertainty in Education
Uncertainty in education, both general and special, has long troubled educational researchers, reformers, and practitioners. Responding to students with special (atypical) educational needs is an example of decisions that are prone to error. Although some efforts to reduce uncertainty in education are reasonable and helpful, efforts to eliminate uncertainty completely are not only certain to fail but sometimes make matters worse. Changing the str…
Collaboration in the Co-teacher dyad in inclusive classrooms
Imagining and Reimagining the Future of Special and Inclusive Education
“Reimagination” is required to create a new vision of education that better serves individuals with disabilities. Imagination is a way of conceiving possibilities and probabilities. The future of special education is imagined within the limits of possibility and probability of “appropriate” education for children with special educational needs and disabilities. Education is reimagined for full inclusion without special education and an alternativ…
Hard LRE Choices in the Era of Inclusion
Rights of students are often misunderstood. Civil rights of minorities granted by the U.S. Supreme Court are confused with human rights of individuals with disabilities granted by the U.S. Congress. Federal law applying to the education of individuals with disabilities requires that difficult decisions be made by families and schools regarding how to address four different and interrelated provisions of Public Law 94-142 of 1975 (now the Individu…
Recruitment Practices for Special Education Faculty
We explore how the research standards for hiring faculty in Saudi Arabia are compatible with effective practices in the field. Specifically, we examine the outcomes of recruiting practices for special education faculty in the United States, in addition to the worldwide production of special education research. A descriptive analysis was conducted, examining the educational backgrounds of 124 faculty members in top special education programs in th…
On Cultural Politics in Special Education
This article examines the nature of cultural politics in special education, specifically conceptual and methodological issues, as well as political implications related to minority disproportionate representation in disability identification rates. The implication of cultural politics is a focus on the hypothesis that minority disproportionate representation of minorities in special education is definitely a result of racial discrimination, accom…
Cultural Politics, Ideology, and Methodology in Disproportionality Research
We summarize the role of cultural politics in special education. We analyze the 2019 discourse of Whitford and Carrero, our respondents, about the role of ideology and models of disability. Our comments further explain how we see the relationship between theorizing and reality. We contrast the deficit thinking rhetoric with the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act’s legal model in the disability identification. We review the recent evidenc…
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the CRPD Committee, judgments from national and international courts and tribunals, pertinent UN and oth…
Inclusive Education Moving Forward
Change is not synonymous with improvement. Improvement of special education requires better instruction of individuals with disabilities. Although LRE and inclusion are important issues, they are not the primary legal or practical issues in improving special education. Federal law (IDEA) requires a continuum of alternative placements, not placement in general education in all cases. To make actual progress in education of students with disabiliti…
What does the greek model of parallel support have to say about co-teaching
Special and inclusive education in Ghana
Disability in Multicultural Theory
Multicultural theorists in education tend to treat disability as part of cultural diversity and apply a minority group model to disability rights. We critically examine the fundamental presuppositions and social justice issues behind this assimilation of disability into a multicultural frame of reference. The implications of the neutralization of disability are discussed. Reasons for reconciling different views of special education and multicultu…
The Social Model of Disability
Journal Article The Social Model of Disability: Dichotomy between Impairment and Disability Get access Dimitris Anastasiou, Dimitris Anastasiou * *Address correspondence to: Dimitris Anastasiou, PhD, Department of Educational Psychology, Southern Illinois University, 625 Wham Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar James M. Kauffman James M. Kauff…
The Social Model of Disability
Journal Article The Social Model of Disability: Dichotomy between Impairment and Disability Get access Dimitris Anastasiou, Dimitris Anastasiou * *Address correspondence to: Dimitris Anastasiou, PhD, Department of Educational Psychology, Southern Illinois University, 625 Wham Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar James M. Kauffman James M. Kauff…
Special and inclusive education in Ghana
On Cultural Politics in Special Education
This article examines the nature of cultural politics in special education, specifically conceptual and methodological issues, as well as political implications related to minority disproportionate representation in disability identification rates. The implication of cultural politics is a focus on the hypothesis that minority disproportionate representation of minorities in special education is definitely a result of racial discrimination, accom…
What does the greek model of parallel support have to say about co-teaching
Collaboration in the Co-teacher dyad in inclusive classrooms
Cultural Politics, Ideology, and Methodology in Disproportionality Research
We summarize the role of cultural politics in special education. We analyze the 2019 discourse of Whitford and Carrero, our respondents, about the role of ideology and models of disability. Our comments further explain how we see the relationship between theorizing and reality. We contrast the deficit thinking rhetoric with the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act’s legal model in the disability identification. We review the recent evidenc…
Hard LRE Choices in the Era of Inclusion
Rights of students are often misunderstood. Civil rights of minorities granted by the U.S. Supreme Court are confused with human rights of individuals with disabilities granted by the U.S. Congress. Federal law applying to the education of individuals with disabilities requires that difficult decisions be made by families and schools regarding how to address four different and interrelated provisions of Public Law 94-142 of 1975 (now the Individu…
Disability in Multicultural Theory
Multicultural theorists in education tend to treat disability as part of cultural diversity and apply a minority group model to disability rights. We critically examine the fundamental presuppositions and social justice issues behind this assimilation of disability into a multicultural frame of reference. The implications of the neutralization of disability are discussed. Reasons for reconciling different views of special education and multicultu…
The Social Model of Disability
Journal Article The Social Model of Disability: Dichotomy between Impairment and Disability Get access Dimitris Anastasiou, Dimitris Anastasiou * *Address correspondence to: Dimitris Anastasiou, PhD, Department of Educational Psychology, Southern Illinois University, 625 Wham Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar James M. Kauffman James M. Kauff…
Disability in Multicultural Theory
Multicultural theorists in education tend to treat disability as part of cultural diversity and apply a minority group model to disability rights. We critically examine the fundamental presuppositions and social justice issues behind this assimilation of disability into a multicultural frame of reference. The implications of the neutralization of disability are discussed. Reasons for reconciling different views of special education and multicultu…
Special and inclusive education in Ghana
Inclusive Education Moving Forward
Change is not synonymous with improvement. Improvement of special education requires better instruction of individuals with disabilities. Although LRE and inclusion are important issues, they are not the primary legal or practical issues in improving special education. Federal law (IDEA) requires a continuum of alternative placements, not placement in general education in all cases. To make actual progress in education of students with disabiliti…
What does the greek model of parallel support have to say about co-teaching
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the CRPD Committee, judgments from national and international courts and tribunals, pertinent UN and oth…
On Cultural Politics in Special Education
This article examines the nature of cultural politics in special education, specifically conceptual and methodological issues, as well as political implications related to minority disproportionate representation in disability identification rates. The implication of cultural politics is a focus on the hypothesis that minority disproportionate representation of minorities in special education is definitely a result of racial discrimination, accom…
Cultural Politics, Ideology, and Methodology in Disproportionality Research
We summarize the role of cultural politics in special education. We analyze the 2019 discourse of Whitford and Carrero, our respondents, about the role of ideology and models of disability. Our comments further explain how we see the relationship between theorizing and reality. We contrast the deficit thinking rhetoric with the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act’s legal model in the disability identification. We review the recent evidenc…
Recruitment Practices for Special Education Faculty
We explore how the research standards for hiring faculty in Saudi Arabia are compatible with effective practices in the field. Specifically, we examine the outcomes of recruiting practices for special education faculty in the United States, in addition to the worldwide production of special education research. A descriptive analysis was conducted, examining the educational backgrounds of 124 faculty members in top special education programs in th…
Imagining and Reimagining the Future of Special and Inclusive Education
“Reimagination” is required to create a new vision of education that better serves individuals with disabilities. Imagination is a way of conceiving possibilities and probabilities. The future of special education is imagined within the limits of possibility and probability of “appropriate” education for children with special educational needs and disabilities. Education is reimagined for full inclusion without special education and an alternativ…
Hard LRE Choices in the Era of Inclusion
Rights of students are often misunderstood. Civil rights of minorities granted by the U.S. Supreme Court are confused with human rights of individuals with disabilities granted by the U.S. Congress. Federal law applying to the education of individuals with disabilities requires that difficult decisions be made by families and schools regarding how to address four different and interrelated provisions of Public Law 94-142 of 1975 (now the Individu…
Collaboration in the Co-teacher dyad in inclusive classrooms
Uncertainty in Education
Uncertainty in education, both general and special, has long troubled educational researchers, reformers, and practitioners. Responding to students with special (atypical) educational needs is an example of decisions that are prone to error. Although some efforts to reduce uncertainty in education are reasonable and helpful, efforts to eliminate uncertainty completely are not only certain to fail but sometimes make matters worse. Changing the str…
Tribute to a Towering Figure in Special Education
Dr [...]
Macroprudential policies and discouraged borrowers
Political science (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Disability Education and Employment (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Special education (6 works) · Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion (5 works) · Education Discipline and Inequality (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works)