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Binder, Gene – Notes from Workshop Center for Open Education, 1976
Open education offers much more flexibility for mainstreaming than the traditional approach; open classrooms are designed to accommodate children in their individuality. Making adaptations is not upsetting to open classrooms. If children must go to special classes, the open school tendency toward community blurs boundaries between special and…
Descriptors: Handicapped Children, Individual Differences, Individual Needs, Individualized Instruction
Leitch, Davis; Sodhi, S. S. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1986
The article criticizes current special education practices, noting that the concept of individual differences has led ultimately to the practice of labeling children with special needs. The "medical model" has put children in special classes, where they tend to perpetuate and reinforce both the labels and behaviors implied by those labels.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disability Identification, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
