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Article: Physical education textbooks and portrayals of disability.(Research Application)
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- Palaestra
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Despite the increasing numbers of students with disabilities attending inclusive schools, many physical education teacher education programs still perpetuate a separate system in education by training adapted physical educators to focus on students with disabilities, while neglecting to train general physical educators to teach students with disabilities in inclusive settings.
Textbooks are a staple in most college teacher education programs and often reflect the dominant and subversive messages of the current educational culture, including messages about inclusion and disability (Besser et al., 1999; Starck & Wyffels, 1990). The average student will have read ...