Inclusive Education in a Strengths-Based Era

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Mapping the Future of the Field

By Jennifer Kurth and Michael L. Wehmeyer

Series: The Norton Series on Inclusive Education for Students with Disabilities

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Inclusive Education in a Strengths-Based Era by Michael L. Wehmeyer and Jennifer A. Kurth addresses fundamental questions in special and inclusive education, including who, what, and where we teach. Challenging traditional views that often see disability as incapacity, the authors promote a strengths-based perspective that recognises abilities and potential. They argue that students with disabilities can succeed when educators employ effective, personalised strategies that focus on each student's capacities rather than diagnoses, positioning disability as part of typical human diversity.
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Ideal for special education professionals, inclusive educators, policy makers, and graduate students interested in evolving practices that promote high expectations and success for students with disabilities.

It’s time to focus on what students can do, rather than what they can’t.

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In this inaugural book in their Inclusive Education for Students with Disabilities series, Michael L. Wehmeyer and Jennifer A. Kurth explore central, defining questions for the field of special and inclusive education: who, what, and where do we teach; what works in inclusive education; and where does inclusive education go now?

Arguing that the concept of disability for the past fifty years has emphasised students as incapable and incompetent, the authors propose instead to build on a growing understanding that students with disabilities can be successful and meet high expectations, and that educators have the knowledge and skills to achieve this. From this strength-based perspective, the presumption is that disability is part of, and not apart from, typical human functioning.

Using this lens, Wehmeyer and Kurth describe effective practices to guide instruction in inclusive settings—practices that begin with a consideration of each student's strengths and capacities, rather than with a diagnosis.

Series: The Norton Series on Inclusive Education for Students with Disabilities

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Praised for reframing inclusion as a personalised, strengths-based, school-wide approach rather than mere classroom placement, this book is deemed essential for educators committed to progressing inclusive education. Reviewers highlight its contemporary, readable style and its role in outlining the evolution of special education law and practice. The emphasis on support over remediation and the clear stance against excluding students from general education settings receive particular commendation.

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ISBN: 9781324015994

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 August 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Illustration: 10 black-and-white illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

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Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 180.0mm

Height: 257.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 112

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About the Author

Michael L. Wehmeyer is the Ross and Marianna Beach Distinguished Professor of Special Education; Chairperson, Department of Special Education and Director and Senior Scientist at the Beach Center on Disability, all at the University of Kansas. He is a past-president and Fellow of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division 33 Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities/Autism Spectrum Disorders, and a Fellow of the International Association on the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Jennifer A. Kurth is Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Kansas. Her academic interests include methods implementing inclusive education, including methods of embedding critical instruction within the context and routines of general education as well as methods of providing appropriate supports and services for individual learners.

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