Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): Special Issue: Exploring the History of Pupils with Disabilities in Welfare States

Edited by: Anne Berg, Emma Laurin, and Johanna Ringarp

Published: 2025-11-24

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Introduction

• Exploring the History of Pupils with Disabilities in Welfare States

  Anne Berg, Emma Laurin, Johanna Ringarp

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Articles

• Tracing the Biologistic Ability Paradigm in Danish Special Education: A Historical Inquiry into Three Danish Welfare State Contexts, 1923–2023

  Christian Ydesen, Bjørn F. Hamre

  13-36

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• Truancy, School Phobia, or School Fatigue? Understandings of Students’ Absenteeism, 1945–1975

  Thom Axelsson, Anna Larsson

  37-61

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• “Needed and Valuable Instead of Just Being Employed”: Vocational Training, Work and Social Usefulness Regarding People with Intellectual Disability in Sweden, 1945–1989

  Thomas Barow

  63-87

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• From Segregation to Inclusion: Special Needs Education and the Transformation of the Swiss Welfare State

  Michèle Hofmann, Lukas Boser

  89-112

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• Special Tools: Educational Technologies for Children and Adults with Disabilities in Switzerland, 1970s to 1990s

  Michael Geiss

  113-135

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• In the Shadows of the Iron Curtain: The Forgotten Legacy of Vygotsky’s Defectology

  Radu Harald Dinu, Laura-Elena Runceanu

  137-163

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