Klaus Werner Wedell

Klaus Werner Wedell was a British educational psychologist with particular expertise in special needs education.

Career

In the 1930s, Klaus fled to Britain from Nazi Germany. After the war, he studied Psychology at the University of Cambridge.[1] Wedell worked in Bristol and Hull and then was appointed to an academic post at the University of Birmingham.

In 1979, he was appointed to the first chair in Special Education at the Institute of Education in London from which he retired in 1995.[2]

Work

Among other research areas, he was responsible for investigating the implementation of the 1981 Special Education Act. He consulted on special needs, in Britain and internationally.

He co-founded, with BECTA, the National SENCo Forum, an electronic support network.

Publications

Wedell had a regular Points from the SENCO-forum column in the British Journal of Special Education in which he published several articles including:

  • Wedell, K. (2008). INCLUSION: Confusion about inclusion: patching up or system change? British Journal of Special Education.[3]
  • Wedell, K. (1995). Making inclusive education ordinary. British Journal of Special Education.[4]

In 2004, he gave the Gulliford Lecture (established to commemorate Ronald Gulliford) at the University of Birmingham.[5] This was subsequently published:

  • Wedell, K. (2005). Dilemmas in the quest for inclusion. British Journal of Special Education.[6]

Awards

References
  1. "Academics to retire". TES. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  2. "Academics to retire". TES. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  3. Wedell, Klaus (2008). "INCLUSION". British Journal of Special Education. 35 (3): 127-135. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  4. Wedell, Klaus (1995). "Making inclusive education normal". British Journal of Special Education. 22 (3). Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  5. "Klauss Wedell". UCL. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  6. Wedell, Klaus (2005). "Dilemmas in the quest for inclusion". British Journal of Special Education. 32 (1): 3–11. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
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