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Empiricism and BeyondExpanding the Boundaries of Special EducationD. Kim Reid is professor of special education at the University of Northern Colorado. She received her PhD in educational psychology with an emphasis in research in special education from Temple University. Her current research interests are in narrative knowing, sociolinguistics, and the differentiation of languagenearning disability from language difference. Address: D. Kim Reid, Division of Special Education, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639.
Susan J. Robinson is a doctoral candidate in special education at the University of Northern Colorado. She holds an MA in special education from the University of Colorado at Denver. Her research interests are in autism, qualitative research methods, and narrative knowing.
Teresa D. Bunsen received her PhD in special education from the University of North Texas. She is currently associate professor and director of the master's program in behavioral and emotional disorders at the University of Northern Colorado. Her research interests are in autism and gang membership. A good deal of difficulty in the field of special education stems from our lack of awareness that what often appear to be attacks on our existence---the inclusion movement is a good example---are really the results of honest efforts to improve the field. in our nearly exclusive focus on empirical data, we have failed to understand the viewpoints of fellow special educators whose values and beliefs represent a nonempirical point of view. as habermas suggests, different forms of knowledge are needed to address different kinds of interests. in our focus on rationality, we have created crises of legitimacy and motivation. in this issue, our purpose is to acquaint special educators with some alternative perspectives in order to stimulate openness to communicative ethics, and, through mutual understanding and collaboration, to ensure the survival of our field.
Remedial and Special Education, Vol. 16, No. 3,
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