The Editor: Susan L. Gabel is Professor of Education and Director of the Disability and Equity in Education doctoral program at National College of Education, National-Louis University. She teaches graduate courses in disability studies, curriculum studies, and special education. She received her Ph.D. in curriculum, teaching, and educational policy from Michigan State University.

«This book makes a timely and important attempt to speak to those in the arts, the social sciences, and the humanities who focus on disability studies. The important potential of the book’s purpose is matched by an excellence of content and analysis across the individual chapters in that its contributions offer new insights about children with disabilities and their education. The volume fills a void and should land on the desk of every professor who teaches and writes on any flavor of foundations of education. Finally, and for me most promising and important, the book speaks to those in education theory and critical studies who persist in ignoring disability as a concept and special education as a system.» (Philip M. Ferguson, E. Desmond Lee Professor for the Education of Children with disabilities)«Slippery shibboleths, token economies, kynicism, disability as an aesthetic: this indispensable collection explicates key concepts and in so doing demonstrates why we (regardless our specialization) must study disability.» (William F. Pinar, St. Bernard Parish Alumni Endowed Professor, Louisiana State University)

• Contents: Susan Gabel: Introduction: Disability Studies in Education – Susan Gabel: An Aesthetic of Disability – Julie Allan: Disability Arts and the Performance of Ideology – Anne Ruggles Gere: Seeing is/not Believing: Visibility, Invisibility and Disability Studies in Education – Nirmala Erevelles: Rewriting Critical Pedagogy from the Periphery: Materiality, Disability and the Politics of Schooling – Scot Danforth: Compliance as Alienated Labor: A Critical Analysis of Public School Programs for Students Considered to have Emotional/Behavioral Disorders – Linda Ware: Many Possible Futures, Many Different Directions: Merging Critical Special Education and Disability Studies – Ellen Brantlinger: Slippery Shibboleths: The Shady Side of Truisms in Special Education – Deborah J. Gallagher: Searching for Something Outside of Ourselves: The Contradiction Between Technical Rationality and the Achievement of Inclusive Pedagogy – Susan Peters: Transforming Literacy Instruction: Unpacking the Pedagogy of Privilege.