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cover of La Normalizacion del Deficiente: Actitudes del Profesorado (Teachers' Attitudes toward Mainstreaming Handicapped Children in Spain)

La Normalizacion del Deficiente

Actitudes del Profesorado (Teachers' Attitudes toward Mainstreaming Handicapped Children in Spain)

Francisco Alberto Chueca y Mora

University of Michigan Press, 1988

Teacher attitudes toward the mainstreaming of students with handicaps is a topic of international concern. Although as a social and educational policy, mainstreaming has been attempted with greatly varying degrees of success in the United States and elsewhere for the past ten years, very little empirical evidence existed to give support to such a policy. The author's study, conducted in Spain prior to a nationwide effort to integrate children with handicaps into regular classrooms, indicates that the success or failure of such programs is crucially linked to teachers' willingness to accept the concept of mainstreaming. This study examines teacher attitudes and related variables about mainstreaming before its inception, and resolves some of the difficulties that have been experienced with its implementation. This is an extremely important document for educators and others involved with handicapped children.
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cover of Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher

Lesson Plans

The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher

Everitt, Judson G.

Rutgers University Press, 2017

Winner of the 2019-20 Distinguished Book Award - Midwest Sociological Society

In Lesson Plans, Judson G. Everitt takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training, and reveals the complexities and dilemmas teacher candidates confront as they learn how to perform a job that many people assume anybody can do. Using rich qualitative data, Everitt analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by the institutionalized rules and practices of higher education, K-12 education, and gender. Trained to constantly adapt to various contingencies that routinely arise in schools and classrooms, teacher candidates learn that they must continually try to reconcile the competing expectations of their jobs to meet students’ needs in an era of accountability. Lesson Plans reveals how institutions shape the ways we produce teachers, and how new teachers make sense of the multiple and complicated demands they face in their efforts to educate students.   
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