New directions in special needs : innovations in mainstream schools

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    • Clark, Catherine

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New directions in special needs : innovations in mainstream schools

Catherine Clark ... [et al.]

(Special needs in ordinary schools)

Cassell, c1997

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  • : hbk

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-206) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780304700233

Description

This work addresses one of the greatest challenges faced by education in recent years - to adapt teaching practices in order to accommodate children with special needs. This book presents an analysis of these challenges, and reports on the ways in which schools are developing innovatory responses to them. It focuses on population, curriculum, role and expertise, and organization and change. It also re-evaluates the Warnock report, and looks at the history of integration of special needs pupils into mainstream schools.

Table of Contents

  • The whole school approach
  • beyond the whole school approach?
  • issues in the attempt to reconstruct the whole school approach - the case of Downland
  • integration and inclusion
  • specific learning difficulties - back to the future?
  • the Code of Practice
  • the changing role of the LEA in the management of SEN provision
  • the past and the future.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780304700240

Description

This work addresses one of the greatest challenges faced by education in recent years - to adapt teaching practices in order to accommodate children with special needs. This book presents an analysis of these challenges, and reports on the ways in which schools are developing innovatory responses to them. It then studies the implications of these for schools, in terms of classroom practice, professional development and the relationship of the school with its environment. It also looks at the history of the integration of special needs pupils into mainstream schools.

Table of Contents

  • The whole school approach
  • beyond the whole school approach?
  • issues in the attempt to reconstruct the whole school approach - the case of Downland
  • integration and inclusion
  • specific learning difficulties - back to the future?
  • the Code of Practice
  • the changing role of the LEA in the management of SEN provision
  • the past and the future.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA30471429
  • ISBN
    • 030470024X
    • 0304700231
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 214 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
  • Classification
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