Gary Thomas, Andrew Loxley

Print ISBN: 9780335248711 Ebook ISBN: 9780335248728

Published January 2022

This revised edition of a popular text offers students an updated and comprehensive overview across special education. It critically examines the intellectual foundations of special education and considers the consequences of their influence for professional and popular thinking about learning difficulties

The chapters place inclusion within a social and political context to highlight how concepts have been influences by theory and ideology across the years.

“Essential reading for anyone studying or working in either special or inclusive education… Few could build the case as well as Thomas and Loxley.”

Melanie Nind, Professor of Education, University of Southampton, UK

"Finishing your first reading of their book makes you realise that you must return to it, such is the richness of the analysis and reach of its detail This is a tour de force, a line in the sand for all successive work in the field of inclusive education."

Roger Slee, Diamond Jubilee Professor of Disability Studies, University of Leeds, UK

What's New?

The book offers guidance to students on specific issues such as reading and behavioural difficulties with theoretically grounded information

With a fresh chapter discussing current research, intersectionality and increased marketisation within education this book reflects the new landscape and legislation of special education