Autonomy, Rights and Children with Special Educational Needs

Sheila Riddell is Professor at the Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Having worked as a teacher before completing her PhD, her current research focuses on the rights of children with additional support need and access issues in higher education.

• Chapter 1. Children’s independent rights in education: setting the scene.- Chapter 2. Research methods.- Chapter 3. Special and additional support needs policy and the rights of children and young people.- Chapter 4. Children’s rights, categorisation and disproportionality.- Chapter 5. Enhancing the rights of children and young people: The translation of grand designs into grassroots policy and practice.- Chapter 6. Children and young people’s participation rights in schools and classrooms.- Chapter 7. Participation by children and young people in representative bodies.- Chapter 8. Children and young people’s involvement in formal educational planning.- Chapter 9. School choice and the rights of children, young people and their families.- Chapter 10. Participation in dispute resolution by children, young people and their families.- Chapter 11. Conclusion.