Teaching in Special Education: Managing the Chaos

by Lisa A. Ferrelli

Overview

Teaching In Special Education: Managing the Chaos addresses the question-how do special education teachers function in general education settings? The text describes the experiences of special education teachers in diverse settings at a time when federal law and assessment requirements drive educational policy. Ferrelli uses interviews and observation to tell the stories of six special education teachers as they go about the business of teaching, illuminating the elements of special education teacher practice and documenting the tensions manifested in the interaction between special education and general education teachers. Such tensions create a distinct sense of separation between the practices that constitute special education, and those of general education that are typical of American educational policy and practice today. In providing voice for these teachers, this text fills a vacancy in the currently existing studies of teacher practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761850267
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	12/11/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	214
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Lisa Ferrelli is a veteran special education currently teaching in a public school in Massachusetts. She received her Ph.D. in 2007 for the work on which this book is based.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 List of Figures
Chapter 2 List of Tables
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Acknowledgements
Part 5 Part I
Chapter 6 Introduction: Brief History of Special Education
Chapter 7 Chapter One: Studying Special Education Teachers
Chapter 8 Chapter Two: Evolution of the Study
Part 9 Part II
Chapter 10 Chapter Three: Methodology Employed in the Study
Chapter 11 Chapter Four: Special Education Teacher Practice Described
Chapter 12 Chapter Five: A Day in the Life: Special Education Teacher Practice Observed
Chapter 13 Chapter Six: What Do These Experiences Mean?: Interpreting the Data
Chapter 14 Chapter Seven: Special Education Teacher Practice Revealed
Chapter 15 Chapter Eight: Special Education Teacher Practice - Managed Chaos
Part 16 Appendices
Chapter 17 Appendix A: Interview Protocol
Chapter 18 Appendix B: Terminology Glossary
Chapter 19 Bibliography
Chapter 20 Index