For disabled people and people with learning difficulties the transition from school to college, work and 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, setting special needs in further education in a socio-political context. The book focuses on the notion of "transition to adulthood" for students with special educational needs, exploring it in terms of class, race, gender and disability differences and relating it to social, economic and political influences. The book analyzes employment opportunities, education and training choices and possible degrees of community participation, addressing the problems encountered by both students and those staff who support them. Its distinctive approach recognizes discrimination and challenges stereotyping. The book is intended to confront complacency, encourage dialogue and debate and suggests ways forward in what the authors perceive is a difficult struggle for choice. Each chapter includes a set of questions which can be used as the basis for discussion.

A Struggle for Choice: Students With Special Needs in Transition to Adulthood

Barton, Len

CORBETT, JENNY

Routledge

Overcoming Disabling Barriers: 18 Years of Disability and Society (Education Heritage)

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 sections which mirror the three central themes: <ul>
<li>disability studies – clearly illustrates the debates and challenges that have emerged within the field over the last two decades </li> <li>policy – offers a snapshot of social policy that has impinged on the lives of disabled people in many parts of the world </li> <li>research issues – reveals the inequalities between disabled and non-disabled people and the advocacy of new methods and research practices. </li> </ul>
The editors’ specially written introduction to each section contextualises the selection and introduces students to the main issues and current thinking in the field. Altogether this book is a rich source of ideas and insights covering conceptual, theoretical, empirical and cross-cultural issues and questions.

Overcoming Disabling Barriers (Education Heritage)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Gender, Class and Education (Routledge Revivals)

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 between educational researchers and teachers. The papers focus on the reproduction of gender relations through education and provide important insights into how this process works, how it is resisted in schools and colleges, and the possibilities for radical intervention. This volume includes three teaching bibliographies on gender and education which were not presented at the conference, but were compiled specially for the book.

Politics & Social Sciences

Walker, Stephen

Social Sciences

Disability and Society (Longman Sociology Series)

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 research in this rapidly expanding area. The contributors, both disabled and non-disabled, are all leading thinkers in their field and suggest new ways of understanding disability, developing policy and challenging current practice.

Sociology

First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Gender Class & Educatn Pb

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Special Education and Social Interests

Nichols Pub. Co

Disability Studies: Past, Present and Future

The Disability Press

Overcoming Disabling Barriers: 18 Years of Disability and Society

Social Crisis and Educational Research (RLE Edu L)

Walker, Stephen A

Taylor&Francis

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