Ethics of Special Education (Professional Ethics in Education Series)

By Kenneth R. Howe, Ofelia B. Miramontes, Amy E. Boele

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080773179X
• ISBN13: 9780807731796
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"