Needs, Rights and Opportunities
Developing Approaches to Special Education
Published in November 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
164 pages
978-1-85000-517-9 (ISBN)
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85000-517-9 (9781850005179)
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Content
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.