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Direct linkCatherine Voulgarides – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
The purpose of this article is to compel educators to think critically about how the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), a prominent school-based legislation in the United States, and caregiver/parental participation relate to each other and to equity in special education outcomes. I use two illustrative case studies to show how…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities
de Bruin, Kate – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
When the Salamanca Statement called upon States to recognise the 'necessity and urgency' of providing students with a disability access to the regular education system (UNESCO 1994, viii), both Australia and the United States of America had existing legislative and policy documents articulating the rights of students with a disability to access…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Change, Students with Disabilities, Equal Education
Russo, Charles J. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
The United States Senate's unwillingness to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) notwithstanding, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) contains significant safeguards protecting the rights of students with disabilities, acknowledging their participation rights in decisions about their futures. In the first of…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Federal Legislation
Hardy, Ian; Woodcock, Stuart – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2015
This paper provides an analysis of inclusive education policies across international, and Anglo-American national and provincial/state jurisdictions to reveal how policies discursively construct inclusion under current, increasingly neoliberal conditions. In making this case, the paper draws upon primary UNESCO and Organisation for Economic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Educational Policy, International Organizations
Ferguson, Dianne L.; Ferguson, Philip M.; Kim, Joanne; Li, Corrine – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
This paper analyses the descriptions of families of children with disabilities as contained in introductory special education texts over the last 50 years. These text books are typically used in pre-service teacher education courses as surveys of the education of "exceptional children". The textbooks reflect the mainstream professional…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Textbooks, Textbook Content
Hunt, Paula Frederica – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
This article offers a comparative analysis of the Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, within a critically discursive framework. The author creates the notion of "possibilities of practice", and analyses each policy document as to how these are created, by means of…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Inclusion, Educational Legislation, Special Needs Students
