Justice and Equality in Education A Capability Perspective on Disability and Special Educational Needs

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ISBN: 9780826497109 | 0826497101
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Copyright: 5/14/2008

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Issues concerning the educational provision for students with disabilities and special educational needs are extremely controversial in current debates in philosophy, education and public policy. What constitutes a just educational provision for these students? More specifically, what and how many educational resources should be distributed to meet an ideal of equality? Furthermore, what are learning disabilities and special educational needs? Are they naturally or socially determined?

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Liberal egalitarianism and educational equality	p. 4
Impairment, disability and special educational needs: individual or social?	p. 7
Liberal egalitarianism and disability	p. 9
Methodology	p. 11
The structure of the book	p. 13
Special and Inclusive Education: Incoherence in Practice and Dilemmas in Theory	p. 15
Variations in provision: special, integrated and inclusive education	p. 18
Inequalities in practice: the funding of inclusive and special education	p. 29
The dilemma of difference	p. 36
Concluding comments	p. 41
The Social Model of Disability: A Philosophical Critique	p. 42
Individual and social models of disability	p. 43
Internal criticism: a critique of the materialist framework	p. 47
External critique	p. 52
Concluding comments	p. 63
The Social Model of Disability and Inclusive Education	p. 64
Inclusive education: a process towards an inclusive society	p. 65
Inclusive education: rights, entitlements and opportunities	p. 71
A philosophical critique of social perspectives in inclusive education	p. 74
Concluding comments	p. 82
The Capability Approach: Re-Examining Impairment and Disability	p. 84
Sen's capability approach, disability and justice	p. 85
Nussbaum's capabilities approach, disability and justice	p. 93
A capability perspective on impairment and disability	p. 97
Problems with the capability approach	p. 102
Concluding comments	p. 106
Beyond the Dilemma of Difference: The Capability Perspective on Disability and Special Educational Needs	p. 108
Beyond the dilemma of difference	p. 109
Defending the capability perspective on disability and special educational needs	p. 115
Concluding comments	p. 123
Capability Equality and the Egalitarian Debate	p. 125
The debate on equality	p. 126
The 'resourcist' approach	p. 128
The 'welfarist' approach: equality of welfare	p. 134
The capability approach: equality of capability	p. 139
Concluding comments	p. 142
Justice and Equality in Education: Towards a Principled Framework	p. 143
Education, capability and well-being	p. 145
Capability equality in education: elements of a fundamental educational entitlement	p. 152
Elements of a fundamental educational entitlement for students with disabilities and special educational needs	p. 157
Towards a principled framework for a just distribution of educational resources to students with disabilities and special educational needs	p. 161
Concluding comments	p. 164
Objections to the Principled Framework for Educational
Equality: A Response	p. 165
Should we distribute educational resources according to individuals' ability to make use of them?	p. 166
Is a minimum adequate education for all acceptable?	p. 171
Is capability equality in education unable to account for equal recognition?	p. 175
Concluding comments	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 180
Notes	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 205
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