Product Description: Images of disabled children are found throughout well-known works of literature, film, and even opera. Their characters range from sweet, to brave, to tragic. Disabled children are also a part of the reality of life either in personal ways or as poster girls and boys for drives and causes...read more

This book attempts an integrated treatment of the various forms of human diversity found in schools: gender, racial, ethnic, class, language and handicap. It stresses the culture-learning (socialization) process: how individuals become functioning group members and how their cultural conditioning produces barriers to understanding and interacting with those who are "different" from themselves. The book is aimed at courses dealing with human diversity in education and "broadened" multicultural language, and social class differences. It may also appeal to many foundations instructors with an interest in diversity and inequality.

Product Description: This book attempts an integrated treatment of the various forms of human diversity found in schools: gender, racial, ethnic, class, language and handicap. It stresses the culture-learning (socialization) process: how individuals become functioning group members and how their cultural conditioning produces barriers to understanding and interacting with those who are "different" from themselves...read more

Product Description: Presents an interdisciplinary perspective on children considered exceptional and how services have evolved in response to their diverse needs. The authors synthesise the voices of exceptional children, providing a historical perspective of the professional and the client.

Product Description: This latest volume in the "Yearbook in Early Childhood Education" comes at an opportune time for early childhood educators. As more and more "exceptional" young children are being placed in mainstream settings, there is an increasing need for all early childhood educators, not just special educators, to be playing a new role in the education of young at-risk or disabled children...read more

Product Description: Education, Teaching