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  • DISABILITY AND SOCIETY
    LEN BARTON
    The study of disability has traditionally been influenced mainly by medical and psychological models. The aim of this new text, Disability and Society, is to open up the debate by introducing alternative perspectives reflecting the increasing sociological interest in this important topic.Disability and Society brings together for the first time some of the most recent original ...

    $1,760.00

  • A STRUGGLE FOR CHOICE
    JENNY CORBETT / LEN BARTON
    First published in 1992. For disabled people and people with learning difficulties the transition from school to college, work or training can be stressful and frustrating; job choices are often restricted, and they face barriers which are beyond their control. This book is about their struggle for choice. It sets special needs in further education in a socio-political context....

    $2,800.00

  • EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
    LEN BARTON
    This book, first published in 1985, argues that changes in the education system are closely bound up with wider social and political changes. It considers items within education such as developments in teacher assessment policy and changes in the control of education policy; and external items such as new directions in the management of the economy, of class relations and of th...

    $1,040.00

  • INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
    FELICITY ARMSTRONG / DERRICK ARMSTRONG / LEN BARTON
    First published in 2000. This book looks at 'inclusive' education in the context of policy and practice in a number of different countries, particularly in relation to children and young people of school age. At the heart of the idea of inclusive education lie serious issues concerning 'human rights', 'equal opportunities' and 'social justice'. The papers in this book will, hop...

    $1,280.00

  • DISABILITY, POLITICS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR CHANGE
    BARTON, LEN
    This book seeks to explore how disability is understood and the position and experiences of disabled people both within and across different societies. The authors explore the question of politics in relation to specific struggles, providing a wealth of insights and ideas, and examine the nature and value of a social model of disability. They criticize exclusionary barriers whi...

    $1,100.00

  • GENDER, CLASS AND EDUCATION (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    STEPHEN WALKER / LEN BARTON
    First published in 1983, Gender, Class and Education is a collection of papers that formed presentations at the Westhill Sociology of Education Conference in January 1982, and is the fifth such collection to emerge from the annual conference. The conference theme, ‘Race, Class and Gender’, was not only chosen because of its topicality, but also to provide a framework for debate...

    $960.00

  • SPECIAL EDUCATION AND SOCIAL INTERESTS (RLE EDU M)
    BARTON, LEN / TOMLINSON, SALLY
    Until this book was published, most writing on special education was about specific disabilities and how to cope with them. This book, however, considers the broader context, looking at many problems for the wider system that have arisen through integration of special education within it. The book is international and comparative in its focus and includes much North American ma...

    $1,420.00

  • SCHOOLS, TEACHERS AND TEACHING (RLE EDU N)
    LEN BARTON
    This volume considers how various sociological approaches to the exploration of the conditions of teachers’ might be co-ordinated so as to produce a more penetrating and reliable understanding of the main dimensions of teachers’ work. Three dimensions are selected for special attention: historical, institutional and interactional contexts in which teachers operate. In different...

    $1,420.00

  • SOCIAL CRISIS AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (RLE EDU L)
    BARTON, LEN / WALKER, STEPHEN A
    Originally written at a time of crisis in the education system of Britain – occasioned by cuts, contradictions and change - many of the issues discussed in this book are still relevant today. Debate in the book focuses upon an examination of the nature of the crisis, an exploration of the impact of the crisis upon school processes and upon the relationship between life in schoo...

    $1,420.00

  • SCHOOLING, IDEOLOGY AND THE CURRICULUM (RLE EDU L)
    BARTON, LEN / MEIGHAN, ROLAND / WALKER, STEPHEN A
    Although the different contributions to this book range over a wide spectrum of substantive issues, they share a common interest. This is a concern to explore the ways in which notions of the relations between theory and practice, between belief and action, can be used to develop three kinds of sensitivity in the sociology of education. A sensitivity towards how school systems ...

    $1,420.00

  • OVERCOMING DISABLING BARRIERS
    LEN BARTON
    This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last eighteen years. It includes over twenty essential articles from the journal Disability and Society, written by many of the leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and Europe. Compiled by the current editors of the journal, it is divided into three sect...

    $1,280.00

  • DISABILITY AND DEPENDENCY
    LEN BARTON
    One of the disturbing messages of this book is the extent to which disabled people are suffering in society. It looks at the socio-economic issues involved as well as the personal aspects of their lives and offers solutions to the discriminating ...

    $400.00