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Issues of Equity in Special Needs Education from a Gender Perspective
Author(s) -
Daniels Harry,
Hey Valerie,
Leonard Diana,
Smith Marjorie
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
british journal of special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8578
pISSN - 0952-3383
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8527.00137
Subject(s) - mainstream , perspective (graphical) , equity (law) , gender equity , special needs , special education , sociology , mainstreaming , pedagogy , public relations , engineering ethics , psychology , political science , social science , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , computer science , law , engineering
This article is concerned with gender issues in resource allocation for special needs in mainstream schools. The ways in which categories operate in academic life and professional practice in schools raise dilemmas for the development of the concept and practice of equality of opportunity. Data are drawn from a recent ESRC study (R000237346) and used to illustrate some of the ways in which significant problems for the management of special needs services are revealed from the perspective of gender.