Strengths-Based Approaches to Educating All Learners with Disabilities

Beyond Special Education

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Educational Theory, Curricula, Special Education
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Author: Michael L. Wehmeyer ISBN: 9780807777640
Publisher: Teachers College Press Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Michael L. Wehmeyer
ISBN: 9780807777640
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint:
Language: English

Michael Wehmeyer, a leading scholar with over four decades of experience as a teacher, teacher educator, researcher, and advocate, provides a cogent but accessible account of the evolution of special education. Offering a compelling vision of where the field should be headed in the next decade, he notes how the digital revolution has made it possible for all learners to gain access to content and instruction. This text focuses on the need to consider how young people with (and without) disabilities learn and the importance of creating personalizable education as strengths-based approaches to disability move education away from diagnosis and remediation to schoolwide instruction for all students. This book is not written as a criticism of traditional special education models, but instead examines the big ideas for going beyond special education that can improve outcomes for learners with disabilities and prepare them for the 21st-century world.

“If you are part of the field, you must choose whether to look backward or forward. This book includes the tools you need for the latter.”
—Sue Swenson, president, Inclusion International

“Dr. Wehmeyer masterfully articulates the flaws in our current approach and offers a roadmap to a more promising future for our nation’s children.”
—Melody Bruce Musgrove, The University of Mississippi

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Michael Wehmeyer, a leading scholar with over four decades of experience as a teacher, teacher educator, researcher, and advocate, provides a cogent but accessible account of the evolution of special education. Offering a compelling vision of where the field should be headed in the next decade, he notes how the digital revolution has made it possible for all learners to gain access to content and instruction. This text focuses on the need to consider how young people with (and without) disabilities learn and the importance of creating personalizable education as strengths-based approaches to disability move education away from diagnosis and remediation to schoolwide instruction for all students. This book is not written as a criticism of traditional special education models, but instead examines the big ideas for going beyond special education that can improve outcomes for learners with disabilities and prepare them for the 21st-century world.

“If you are part of the field, you must choose whether to look backward or forward. This book includes the tools you need for the latter.”
—Sue Swenson, president, Inclusion International

“Dr. Wehmeyer masterfully articulates the flaws in our current approach and offers a roadmap to a more promising future for our nation’s children.”
—Melody Bruce Musgrove, The University of Mississippi

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