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Tales from School

Learning Disability and State Education after Administrative Reform

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Rod Wills

    1. University of Auckland, New Zealand

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  2. Missy Morton

    1. University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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  3. Margaret McLean

    1. University of Auckland, New Zealand

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  4. Maxine Stephenson

    1. University of Auckland, New Zealand

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  5. Roger Slee

    1. Victoria University, Melbourne, New Zealand

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  • Professional, academic and parent leaders explore the struggle for disabled learners in New Zealand as neoliberal politics and government reform clash with the development and delivery of inclusive education.

Part of the book series: Studies in Inclusive Education (STUIE)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Rod Wills, Missy Morton, Margaret Mclean, Maxine Stephenson, Roger Slee
    Pages 1-3

  3. Understandings for Today

    • Maxine Stephenson
    Pages 5-8

  4. Legitimating Exclusion

    • Maxine Stephenson
    Pages 9-26

  5. Parents, Professionals and Schooling

    • Maxine Stephenson, Charlotte Thomson
    Pages 27-43

  6. Special Education and the Changing Role of the State 1984–1989

    • Colleen Brown
    Pages 45-64

  7. Thinking about Our Children

    • Rod Wills
    Pages 65-67

  8. Reforming Special Education at the Local School

    • Rod Wills
    Pages 69-81

  9. Section 10 Appeals: A Safety Net or a Holey Promise?

    • Colleen Brown
    Pages 83-90

  10. The Problematics of Inclusive Education in New Zealand Today

    • Rod Wills, Stephen A. Rosenbaum
    Pages 91-108

  11. Limiting the Definition and the Discourse

    • Christopher Mcmaster
    Pages 109-118

  12. Parent Struggles with Education and the School System

    • Margaret Mclean
    Pages 119-121

  13. Is Anyone Listening?

    • Diane Mara
    Pages 123-132

  14. Parent-School Relationships and the Exclusion of Disabled Students from and within School

    • Alison Kearney
    Pages 133-147

  15. Parents of Disabled Children Talk about their Experiences of Partnership After Special Education 2000

    • Margaret Mclean, Gerlinde Andraschko, Elizabeth Elsworth, Judith Harris, Judith Selvaraj, Colin Webster
    Pages 149-163

  16. How ‘Specialese’ Maintains Dual Education Systems in Aotearoa, New Zealand

    • Bernadette Macartney
    Pages 165-179

  17. Pushing the Stone Up the Hill

    • Rod Wills, Bernadette Macartney, Colleen Brown
    Pages 181-193

  18. Resisting Neoliberalism

    • Missy Morton
    Pages 195-198

  19. Relational and Culturally Responsive Indigenous Approach to Belonging and Inclusion

    • Mere Berryman
    Pages 199-211

  20. Flying Under the Radar

    • Anne-Marie Mcilroy, Annie Guerin
    Pages 213-225
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About this book

This is a book about the struggle of many New Zealand families to have their children with learning disabilities included in local community schools. It reviews the influences in the post war period that shaped the state response to the right of all children to attend school. Reflections from both education policy makers and parents of that time are included. The book also examines the more recent impact of neoliberal politics on education policy and the consequences experienced by families with school-aged children with disabilities who may well become ‘collateral damage in the enterprise of improving schools.’ 

After examining the families’ experience the book asks how inclusion can be fostered in schools and classrooms? Practitioners and academics present research findings that indicate alternative ways of thinking and acting that attest to more ethical and humane responses to human difference. Citizens, school personnel, politicians and policy makers should be challenged by the tales from school arising from attempts to achieve a ‘world class, inclusive education system.’


Cover photograph by Rod Wills, “Oratia District School”

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Auckland, New Zealand

    Rod Wills, Margaret McLean, Maxine Stephenson

  • University of Canterbury, New Zealand

    Missy Morton

  • Victoria University, Melbourne, New Zealand

    Roger Slee

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tales from School

  • Book Subtitle: Learning Disability and State Education after Administrative Reform

  • Editors: Rod Wills, Missy Morton, Margaret McLean, Maxine Stephenson, Roger Slee

  • Series Title: Studies in Inclusive Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-893-0

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-893-0Published: 26 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 292

  • Topics: Education, general

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