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Provision for students with learning difficulties in general colleges of further education – have we been going round in circles?
Author(s) -
Wright AnneMarie
Publication year - 2006
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.1467-8578.2006.00409.x
Subject(s) - scrutiny , wright , set (abstract data type) , scale (ratio) , special education , pedagogy , mathematics education , psychology , sociology , learning disability , unemployment , medical education , political science , medicine , economic growth , developmental psychology , economics , computer science , law , quantum mechanics , physics , programming language
In this article, Anne‐Marie Wright, lecturer at the University of Chester, considers the current situation for students with severe learn i n g difficulties in general colleges of further education. She presents findings from a critical review of the literature and a small‐scale preliminary investigation which set out to explore the idea that, despite radical changes to the special school sector and to the structure and organisation of further education, provision in colleges of further education for these students is poorly focused. Students with severe learning difficulties experience provision that is, at best, circuitous and repetitive and that, at worst, leads individuals back into dependence, unemployment and social segregation. Using the outcomes of her own interviews and the scrutiny of inspection reports, Anne‐Marie Wright provides a searching critique of current practice and an interesting set of recommendations for ways in which the situation could be radically reviewed and improved.