Included or Excluded?: The Challenge of the Mainstream for Some SEN Children - Hardcover

 
9780415401197: Included or Excluded?: The Challenge of the Mainstream for Some SEN Children
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415401194 ISBN 13: 9780415401197
Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

In a pamphlet published in 2005 Mary Warnock expressed concerns about some of the concepts that she had helped to introduce in the field of special education almost three decades earlier. She argued that the role of special schools was unclear and the pursuit of inclusion had become too ideological.

This highly topical book suggests that distinctions should be made between kinds of special needs and the possibility addressed that some SEN children might be happier and more effective as learners within non-mainstream settings. Her call for a government review to investigate these problems raised its media profile, fuelling the debate. This book pulls together contributions from all sides of the argument.

An essential read for anyone involved in special education as well as the philosophy and ethics of education this book truly breaks new ground.

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About the Author

Dr Ruth Cigman is lecturer in philosophy at Birbeck Faculty of Continuing Education, University of London, UK.

Baroness Warnock, Peer and lead author of The Warnock Report (1978) that radically shaped UK education policy.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415401194
ISBN 13 
9780415401197
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
222
Editor
Cigman Ruth