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Managing Special Education (UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Education OUP)

Managing Special Education (UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Education OUP)

by Fish (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

    $29.18
Synopsis

How can the educational and other special needs of children and young people with disabilities and/or significant learning difficulties be met by policies which emphasise competition, market forces and short term financial planning?

This is the key issue which concerns Managing Special Education. The book discusses a number of persistent and unresolved issues about the relationship of special education to primary, secondary and further education.

Local management of schools and colleges and increased parental choice has created new and difficult market conditions for special educational provision. Increased choice costs money and the more special the need, the greater the cost. How will responsibilities delegated to schools and colleges ensure that children, young people and adults with disabilities and learning difficulties have reasonable access to quality educational opportunities given that the market system provides no incentives for schools and colleges to provide higher cost minority provision unless it is self financing?

This book is both topical and forward looking. It concludes with a possible agenda for the future which identifies both issues to be resolved and management tasks from central government to school and college level.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 137
 Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 Oct 1995
ISBN 10: 0335194389
ISBN 13: 9780335194384

Media Reviews
...a useful summary of the range of legislative and otherchanges which have taken place since the last 1980's. - Support for Learning ...a book worth buying, and is essentialreading for any professional involved in the management of SEN provision. - Educational Review I would recommend this book to those working in the SEN field, both academics and those in schools, LEAs and other services struggling to developservices for our most vulnerable children within a culture stressing the survival of the fittest. - Journal Education Policy
Author Bio
The Author

John Fish - Formerly HMI, Staff Inspector for Special Education; Chariman of the ILEA Committee 'Educational Opportunities for All?; Consultant to the OECD/CERI 'Young People with Disabilities Transition Project' and to the UNESCO special education programme; Advisor to the House of Commons Education Committee. Publications include: What is Special Education? (O.U. Press), Learning Support for Young People in Transition with J McGinty (O U Press) and Further Education in the Marketplace with J McGinty (Routledge).

Jennifer Evans is Lecturer in Policy Studies and Educational Administration in the Management Development Centre, Institute of Education, London University, where she is course tutor for the MA (Educational Management and Administration). She has been involved in a number of studies of special educational policy and provision, including a study of the implementation of the 1981 Education Act. She is currently a consultant to the OECD project Integrated Services for Children and Youth At Risk and co-director of an ESRC-funded study of the effects of LMS on special needs provision in mainstream schools.