Needs, rights and opportunities : developing approaches to special education

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Needs, rights and opportunities : developing approaches to special education

edited by Caroline Roaf and Hazel Bines

(Education & alienation series)

Falmer Press, 1989

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

By introducing a human rights perspective to special education, this book detaches the concept of special needs from its origin in handicap and roots it instead in human rights. Also implied in this view is the notion of the teacher or policymaker as an advocate for children's rights.

Table of Contents

  • Needs, rights and opportunites, Caroline Roaf and Hazel Bines
  • parents, children and the legal framework, Mark Vaughan
  • from incrementalism to catastrophe theory - the case of policy for children with special needs, John Welton
  • assessment, Dennis Mongon
  • opening out schools, Bob Moon
  • equality, rights and primary education, Len Barton and Majorie Smith
  • developing whole school policy - a secondary school perspective, Caroline Roaf
  • 16 plus - rights through life, Deborah Cooper
  • mental handicap awareness and gender relations in a comprehensive school, John Quicke
  • developing a special professionalism - perspectives and practices in teacher training, Hazel Bines.

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