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The "Postmodern" Heresy in Special Education: A Sociological Analysis
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Danforth, Scot – Mental Retardation: A Journal of Practices, Policy and Perspectives, 2004
The special education profession has witnessed a recent struggle between researchers who defend a positivistic approach to knowledge and practice and "postmodern" special educators who challenge that approach. In this analysis I utilize a sociological theory of heresy to examine the conflict between postmodern heresy and positivist orthodoxy. I…
Descriptors: Postmodernism, Special Education, Social Science Research, Sociology
On What Basis Hope? Modern Progress and Postmodern Possibilities.
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Danforth, Scot – Mental Retardation, 1997
Examines modern and postmodern concepts of hope as applied to services for persons having mental retardation. Contrasts modernist theories of special education, based on interventionist social science, with postmodernist views, which critique modern social science as perpetuating stigmatized "mentally retarded" identities defined by…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Mental Retardation
A Deweyan Perspective on Democracy and Inquiry in the Field of Special Education.
Danforth, Scot – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 2001
This article explores the practice of social inquiry in professional work, drawing from the democratic ethics of John Dewey. It explains how Dewey viewed inquiry as free, cooperative, and practical and concludes with a description of advisory work within the self-advocacy movement as an example of Deweyan democracy in action. (Contains…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Decision Making, Democracy, Disabilities
Orthodoxy, Heresy and the Inclusion of American Students Considered to Have Emotional/Behavioural Disorders
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Danforth, Scot; Morris, Pamela – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2006
The special education profession in the USA has witnessed a recent struggle between researchers who defend a positivistic approach to knowledge and practice and "postmodern" special educators who challenge that approach. An analysis based on a sociological theory of heresy provides insight into the social and professional dynamics operating in…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Special Education