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IQEA and special schools
Author(s) -
Beresford John,
Stokes Hilary,
Morris John
Publication year - 2003
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/j.0952-3383.2003.00312.x
Subject(s) - special education , officer , pedagogy , special educational needs , sociology , quality (philosophy) , political science , law , philosophy , epistemology
Projects focused on Improving the Quality of Education for All (IQEA) have been running for ten years. The Nottinghamshire special schools IQEA project is the first to draw schools exclusively from the special education sector. In this article, John Beresford, IQEA's research officer; Hilary Stokes, co‐ordinator of the Nottinghamshire special schools IQEA project; and John Morris, secondary inspector and IQEA co‐ordinator for Nottinghamshire LEA, briefly outline the philosophy in which IQEA is grounded. They discuss the particular challenges encountered in a special schools project and illustrate responses by providing a case study of one school's engagement in the project. The article concludes with a tentative assessment of the benefits that participation in the project has brought to the special schools and units involved.