Special needs education and ethnic diversity in Norway

This article is an analysis of how a discourse within special needs education relates to ethnic diversity in Norway. The analysis is based on a review of research projects, publications in four journals and curriculums at major institutions that qualify for professional work within special needs education or counselling. It is concluded that a monocultural “regime of truth” dominates the discourse in a multicultural context. Ethnic diversity in education is a challenge to critically analyse epistemology, theory, method and norms that the professional discourse applies in a multicultural context.