Special educational needs
A public issue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12272456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anastasia Liasidou (0000-0002-5686-0865, a Department of Education , Roehampton University , London, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 225-239 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies in Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0962-0214 • E-ISSN: 1747-5066 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09620214.2010.516118 |
| OpenAlex | W2002727681 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article explores the contribution of sociological scholarship to understanding and analysing the notions of ‘special educational needs’ and ‘disability’ and the ways in which the two notions have been reconfigured and theorised as ‘public issues’ rather than ‘personal troubles’. Barton's contribution is signified both in terms of his contribution to the evolution of the ‘sociological imagination’ – as a powerful theoretical tool for unravelling the highly political and contested nature of disability and special educational needs – and also in terms of his analysis of the emergence and development of sociological theorising in the field. The parochial obsession with deficit and medical‐oriented approaches to dealing with ‘difference’ and ‘need’ have been significantly challenged through the ‘sociological imagination’ aimed at pointing up the highly political and complex nature of disability and ‘special educational needs’. Times have changed and sociological theorising has evolved, but presumed ‘personal troubles’ are still not unequivocally conceptualised as being intertwined with, resting upon and emanating from ‘public issues’ embedded in the social, cultural and political edifice of educational, social and national communities. The ‘sociological imagination’ should be constantly invoked and deployed in order to expose and challenge the sophisticated ways in which individual pathology accounts and special educational imperatives re‐invent themselves through more inclusive linguistic veneers
Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociological imagination · Sociological theory · Sociology · Sociology of Education · Disability Education and Employment · Disability Rights and Representation · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport · Law
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Fundamental Principles of Disability
The Politics of Disablement
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Performativities and fabrications in the education economy
Studies in the Theory of Ideology
The Politics of Special Educational Needs
Struggle, support and the politics of possibility
Inclusive education
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How is disability understood? An examination of sociological approaches
Integration and partnership in initial teacher education ‐‐ dilemmas and possibilities
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The Sociological Imagination
Imported or Important Theory? Sociological interrogations of disablement and special education
The sociological imagination
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |