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McMaster, Christopher – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2014
This research article reports on the experience of a special needs unit within an Aotearoa/New Zealand high school during a period of inclusive change. The study of the special needs unit represented a case study within a larger year-long qualitative study of the school experience. Utilizing the Index for Inclusion: Developing learning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Inclusion, Special Needs Students
Scottish Council for Educational Technology, Glasgow. – 1976
The use of various resources in special education in Scotland is described in this collection of 12 papers. Written by classroom teachers, the first five relate individual attempts to deal with particular problems, i.e., science education for the visually handicapped, two different approaches to teaching the mentally handicapped, art for the…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Powell, Justin J.W. – Paradigm Publishers, 2006
This book offers a comparative and historical account of the rise of special education over the twentieth century in the United States and Germany. This institutional analysis demonstrates how categorical boundaries, professional groups, social movements, education and social policies shaped the schooling of children and youth with disabilities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ideology, Educational Change, Educational Needs
Phillips, Frank M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
This report contains statistics of schools and classes for feeble-minded and for subnormal children. These children are instructed in three types of schools. State schools and private schools accept mental defectives who are not insane nor charged with criminal acts. The city day schools accept children who are subnormal, backward, and mentally…
Descriptors: Nongraded Instructional Grouping, Special Needs Students, Individualized Instruction, Mental Retardation