Values in Evaluation and Social Research

The authors use the tools of philosophy and the insights from evaluation practice to cut through current confusion about values and the interplay of facts and values. Four views of facts and values in evaluation are analyzed: those rooted in a fact-value dichotomy and those of radical constructivists, postmodernists, and deliberative democrats. The arguments are tough, the prose concise, and the insights compelling.

Politics & Social Sciences

House, Ernest R.

Howe, Kenneth R.

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

The authors delineate the ethical issues most salient and pressing to special education and provide a philosophically grounded framework for their discussion. The book presents 35 real-life cases that raise personal, institutional, and policy issues. This approach allows students to reason and collaborate about ethical issues rather than simply to master a set of principles and precepts. The book emphasizes the perspectives and predicaments of special educators, but is germane to the professional lives of a much wider range of individuals including classroom teachers involved in mainstreaming, administrators and school psychologists involved in negotiating IEPs.
Among the issues highlighted by the cases are: Due process • The distribution of educational resources • Institutional unresponsiveness • Professional relationships • Conflicts among parents and teachers • Confidentiality.

Ethics of Special Education (Professional Ethics in Education Series)

Miramontes, Ofelia B.

Religion & Spirituality

Teachers' College Press

Since publication of the original edition of this book, there have been significant changes across the landscape of special education. This new edition addresses those changes and revisits enduring ethical issues that are most salient and pressing to special education teachers and administrators. Using a case-based approach, this popular text encourages students to reason and collaborate about ethical issues rather than simply master a set of principles and precepts. The issues highlighted in this volume include due process, the distribution of educational resources, institutional unresponsiveness, professional relationships, conflicts among parents and teachers, and confidentiality. The Ethics of Special Education, Second Edition emphasizes the perspectives and predicaments of special educators, but is also germane to the professional lives of a much wider range of individuals, from classroom teachers engaged in inclusion to administrators and school psychologists involved in negotiating IEPs (Individualized Education Programs).
Book Features:
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<li>Real-life cases that raise personal, institutional, and policy issues endemic to special education.</li>
<li>A philosophically grounded framework for discussing the cases.</li>
<li>An approach that helps students work as a group to disentangle the ethical problems associated with the case.</li>
<li>Examples of what reasonably careful and comprehensive analyses look like.</li>
<li>Updated and completely new cases based on feedback from special educators and administrators.</li>
<li>An updated version of the Council for Exceptional Children’s code of ethics.</li>
</ul>

The Ethics of Special Education

Education & Teaching

Ferrell, Amy L.

Schools & Teaching

Educational Equality and the New Selective Schooling by Harry Brighouse was initially published by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain in 2000. In this new edition, Brighouse has updated his argument, Kenneth R Howe and James Tooley have contributed counter-arguments and Graham Haydon has provided an introduction and afterword drawing the debates together. 
The issues debated in this new edition of Educational Equality include: What is Educational Equality? Why Does Educational Equality Matter? Is Educational Equality Possible? 
Educational Equality raises issues which will be of interest to all involved in educational equality, including teachers, policy makers and educationalists.

Educational Equality (Key Debates in Educational Policy)

Brighouse, Harry

Tooley, James

Continuum

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