Klaus Werner Wedell

Klaus Werner Wedell CBE 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 as an educational psychologist for the City of Bristol (1960-64) and the City of Hull (1964-65).[2]

In 1965 he moved to the University of Birmingham and was appointed Course Director of the M.Ed (Ed. Psych) professional training course for educational psychologists in 1970.[3][4]

In 1979, he was appointed to the first chair in Educational Psychology (Children with Special Educational Needs) at the Institute of Education, University College London, from which he retired in 1995.[1]

Work

Klaus Wedell developed the concept of 'compensatory interaction' as a model for assessing children's special educational needs.[5]This model conceptualised children's special educational needs as an interaction between strengths and needs within the child and advantages and disadvantages in their environment, considered over time.

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.[6]
  • Wedell, K. (1995). Making inclusive education ordinary. British Journal of Special Education.[7]

In 2004, he gave the Gulliford Lecture (established to commemorate Ronald Gulliford) at the University of Birmingham.[8] This was subsequently published:

  • Wedell, K. (2005). Dilemmas in the quest for inclusion. British Journal of Special Education.[9]

Awards

References
  1. Pyke, Nicholas (26 May 1995). "Academics to retire". TES. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  2. "Klaus Wedell HonFBPsS CBE 1931-2022". BPS. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  3. "Klaus Wedell HonFBPsS CBE 1931-2022". BPS. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  4. Lunt, Ingrid; Norwich, Brahm; Varma, Ved (1995). Psychology and Education for Special Needs. Aldershot: Arena. p. 230. ISBN 9781857423068.
  5. Lunt, Ingrid; Norwich, Brahm; Varma, Ved (1995). Psychology and Education for Special Needs. Aldershot: Arena. pp. 17–19. ISBN 9781857423068.
  6. Wedell, Klaus (2008). "INCLUSION". British Journal of Special Education. 35 (3): 127–135. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8578.2008.00386.x. S2CID 144272370. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  7. Wedell, Klaus (1995). "Making inclusive education normal". British Journal of Special Education. 22 (3). doi:10.1111/j.1467-8578.1995.tb00914.x. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  8. "Klauss Wedell". UCL. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  9. Wedell, Klaus (2005). "Dilemmas in the quest for inclusion". British Journal of Special Education. 32 (1): 3–11. doi:10.1111/j.0952-3383.2005.00363.x. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  10. "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_New_Year_Honours". {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
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