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Integration and Socialization of Exceptional Children
Author(s) -
PETERS SUSAN J.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1990.21.4.04x0594v
Subject(s) - mainstream , socialization , mainstreaming , ethnography , sociology , social integration , psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , pedagogy , special education , political science , anthropology , law
This ethnographic study examines the process of socialization for physically challenged children “mainstreamed” in an elementary school program. The research goal was to determine the effects of the mainstream environment on physically challenged children as they were socialized with their peers. Analysis focuses on the social and cultural contexts of mainstreaming practices and the dynamics of interactions at the classroom level. Findings identify patterns of behavior, structural components, and processes of the integrated classroom setting that facilitate functional responses of individual children to the mainstream environment.