Sheila Riddell is a Professor and Director at the Centre for Research in Education, Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research and writing focuses on social justice and inclusion in education, employment and social care.

• Introduction: Special education and globalisation: Continuities and contrasts across the developed and developing world 1. Additional support needs policy in Scotland: challenging or reinforcing social inequality? 2. Special education and minority ethnic young people in England: continuing issues 3. Exclusion from school and recognition of difference 4. The narrative of special education in Sweden: History and trends in policy and practice 5. Fighting segregation in special needs education in the Netherlands: the effects of different funding models 6. Reconceptualising inclusion as participation: Neoliberal buck-passing or strategic by-passing? 7. Social justice and technocracy: tracing the narratives of inclusive education in the USA 8. Moving forward or standing still? A reflection of ‘special’ educational provision in Malaysia

Sheila Riddell is a Professor and Director at the Centre for Research in Education, Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research and writing focuses on social justice and inclusion in education, employment and social care.

• Introduction: Special education and globalisation: Continuities and contrasts across the developed and developing world 1. Additional support needs policy in Scotland: challenging or reinforcing social inequality? 2. Special education and minority ethnic young people in England: continuing issues 3. Exclusion from school and recognition of difference 4. The narrative of special education in Sweden: History and trends in policy and practice 5. Fighting segregation in special needs education in the Netherlands: the effects of different funding models 6. Reconceptualising inclusion as participation: Neoliberal buck-passing or strategic by-passing? 7. Social justice and technocracy: tracing the narratives of inclusive education in the USA 8. Moving forward or standing still? A reflection of ‘special’ educational provision in Malaysia

Sheila Riddell is a Professor and Director at the Centre for Research in Education, Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research and writing focuses on social justice and inclusion in education, employment and social care.

• Introduction: Special education and globalisation: Continuities and contrasts across the developed and developing world 1. Additional support needs policy in Scotland: challenging or reinforcing social inequality? 2. Special education and minority ethnic young people in England: continuing issues 3. Exclusion from school and recognition of difference 4. The narrative of special education in Sweden: History and trends in policy and practice 5. Fighting segregation in special needs education in the Netherlands: the effects of different funding models 6. Reconceptualising inclusion as participation: Neoliberal buck-passing or strategic by-passing? 7. Social justice and technocracy: tracing the narratives of inclusive education in the USA 8. Moving forward or standing still? A reflection of ‘special’ educational provision in Malaysia