Ideology and the Politics of (In)Exclusion provides an international analysis of the politics of research and practice in special education. The contributors to this volume establish purposeful connections to the micropolitics of disability identification and the macropolitics of social structure and describe various geographic locales, recount multiple historical contexts, rely upon differing sources of evidence, and as a consequence, relate a more complex and richly layered analysis of educational inclusion. Ideology and the Politics of (In)Exclusion breaks away from the prevailing discourse on educational inclusion as that which occurs in a vacuum, separate from social inclusion, by providing a close analysis of the narrow frameworks, historic influence, and research tensions that underwrite current special education practice.

The Editor: Linda Ware received her Ph.D. in special education from the University of Kansas. She is Associate Professor and head of the special education program at City College-City University of New York. She has held visiting appointments at Syracuse University and The University of Illinois-Chicago in the Department of Disability and Human Development. Her former appointments were in teacher education programs in both general and special education. Most recently, her publications have appeared in Hypatia: The Journal of Feminist Philosophy and the Journal of Teacher Education.