Overview

National school systems have been significantly conditioned by two global trends since the end of the 20th century. On the one hand, there is a shift towards inclusive education that aims at accommodating schooling to all pupils’ learning conditions. On the other hand, there is a rapidly growing focus on standards, emphasising goal achievement for all pupils as well. In this field of tension, the profession of special educators has been central, as it has traditionally focused on students for whom instruction in regular classrooms lacks appropriate educational solutions yet still expects regular goal achievement. While much is known about how global trends have changed national school systems and teaching professions, we know little about how these trends have affected special education professions internationally. Against this background, this volume presents studies on the formation of Special education professions since the 2000s in Germany and Sweden.

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Author:   Jürgen Schriewer ,  Barbara Schulte ,  Wieland Wermke ,  Inken Beck
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   32
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9783631923795

ISBN 10:   3631923791
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   23 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Wieland Wermke, Inken Beck & Gunnlaugur Magnusson: Introduction to this volume - Part I: Framing the special education professions and their investigations - Wieland Wermke, Inken Beck & Heidi Wimmer: The contexts of special education professions - Gunnlaugur Magnússon, Angelika Bengel, Johannes Ludwig, Inken Beck & Heidi Wimmer: Special education professions from an international perspective - Wieland Wermke, Gunnlaugur Magnusson & Gabriella Höstfält: Methodological Considerations - Wieland Wermke, Gunnlaugur Magnússon & Heidi Wimmer: Theoretical perspectives - Part II: Investigating special educators from a comparative perspective - Inken Beck & Wieland Wermke: Inclusive education and nation-specific special education professionalism - Wieland Wermke, Heidi Wimmer, Andreas Andersson and Kristina Röing Arrias: Professions in motion: Special education professions mirrored in German and Swedish Union journals since the 2000s - Wieland Wermke & Inken Beck: Power and inclusion. German and Swedish special educators’ work in general schools - Gunnlaugur Magnússon & Wieland Wermke: Growing importance, bureaucracy and dissolution of boundaries: Swedish special educators between 2012 and 2022 - Gunnlaugur Magnússon, Johannes Ludwig & Angelika Bengel: Talking about the future: German and Swedish special edcuation students’ perspective on their prospective mission - Wieland Wermke, Thomas Barow & Jan Kuhl: Special education students’ beliefs on inclusion and the role of prior experiences - Part III: Theorising on the formation of special education professions in time and space - Wieland Wermke, Inken Beck & Gunnlaugur Magnusson: Theorising about special educator professions in context

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Wieland Wermke is a professor of special education at Stockholm University, Sweden. Gunnlaugur Magnússon is an associate professor of education at Uppsala University, Sweden. Inken Beck is a doctoral student in special education at Stockholm University, Sweden.

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