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The History of Special Education: Social Control or Humanitarian Progress?
Author(s) -
Cole Ted
Publication year - 1990
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.1467-8578.1990.tb00369.x
Subject(s) - principal (computer security) , special education , control (management) , emotional development , pedagogy , psychology , social change , political science , sociology , law , management , computer science , economics , operating system
The author is principal of Eden Grove School, Appleby, Cumbria, for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. He challenges some current interpretations of the aims and motives of those responsible for special education in Britain in the last hundred years or so.