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Social and Educational Disadvantage: Reconnecting Special Needs Education
Author(s) -
Dyson Alan
Publication year - 1997
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.t01-1-00033
Subject(s) - disadvantage , special education , sight , special educational needs , sociology , newcastle upon tyne , special needs , disadvantaged , inequality , mainstreaming , pedagogy , educational inequality , mathematics education , economic growth , psychology , political science , law , economics , psychiatry , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , astronomy , economic history
Alan Dyson, Professor of Special Needs Education at the University of Newcastle on Tyne (in BJSE 's ‘The New Professors’ series) argues that special needs education has, at a time when there are concerns over falling standards in education generally, lost sight of the relationship between children's difficulties in school and wider patterns of socio‐economic disadvantage and inequality, and suggests that special needs education in the late 1990s is incapable of addressing basic failings and inequities in our education system and within society as a whole.