Schools and Special Needs

Download or read book Schools and Special Needs written by Alan Dyson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-12-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Standing Conference on Studies in Education (SCSE) book awards for 2001 In Schools and Special Needs, the authors provide a critical perspective on the dominant `inclusion′ model of special needs education, in terms of implementation in schools and effectiveness of pupil learning outcomes. They take issue with the major advocates of the inclusion model and argue that a different way of understanding special educational needs in mainstream schools is both possible and necessary. The authors, who are eminent in the special needs field, use up-to-date material to develop a new model for special- education in schools.