Building A Knowledge Base on Culturally Diverse Students With Learning Disabilities: The Need To Enrich Research With A Sociocultural Perspective A ... of learning Disabilities Research & Practice

by Alfredo J. Artiles (Editor), Stanley C. Trent (Editor)

This special issue focuses on a topic of great significance to practioners, teacher educators, and researchers in the special education field -- the education of minority or culturally diverse students with learning disabilities (LD). The topic is very timely given that important debates and controversies about research and practice with minority students currently pervade the learning disabilities field. The articles presented here move discussions and analyses about learning disabilities and minority students beyond the advocacy level by focusing on LD research as it relates to cultural diversity. Divided into two sections, this special issue provides a systematic view of both the role that sociocultural variables have played in LD research and how sociocultural perspectives can be incorporated in future research.

64 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

Alfredo J. Artiles is the Ryan C. Harris Professor of Special Education at Arizona State University. His scholarly interests include education policy and cultural analysis of disability and its intersections with other sociocultural differences. Dr. Artiles was a member of the White House Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics and was a Resident Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Education, is a former vice president and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association.