Behindertenpädagogik

The following text explores the long and rich history of education in Syria, beginning with the origins of written culture and continuing to the present day. Despite numerous political and social upheavals – such as Ottoman rule, the French...

This article examines the involvement of special needs teachers in the Nazi crimes of forced sterilization and »euthanasia«. It analyses how special education was ideologically and institutionally integrated into the racial hygiene goals of the...

Special education diagnosis is seen in this article otherwise than in educational politics and research in an historical angle. This allows to show the singularities, which are characteristic for special education diagnosis in Germany and of...

Auxiliary school teachers actively participated in the forced sterilisation of their pupils during the Nazi era. They helped to school those »unfit for education«. Children of Sinti and Roma were included in the sterilisation procedures. They were...

Political education for children and young people with and without disabilities is more central than ever to maintaining democracy. Especially in times of the spread of anti-democratic ideas and the apparent social acceptance of such statements, the...

The article at hand is the first to present some of the findings of the study »Further education needs of staff in the context of caring for people with »intellectual disabilities«. The study was conducted from early 2023 to mid-2024 at the...

This work on »Swiss Special Education« in the 20th century is designed as a sociological case study of knowledge. It investigates the social and epistemological connections that produce what is referred to in both self-reference and external...

Coercion as a purposeful means of social and special educational practice remains professionally controversial and in need of discussion. If, for example, coercive applications react as repressive forms of discipline to address violations by young...

Combining Butler’s theory of subjectivation with the emancipatory aims of Disability Studies, the paper examines how subjects with disabilities can be conceptualized within Butler’s theoretical framework. In the process, performative...