Special Education and Social Control: Invisible Disasters (Routledge Library Editions: Special Educational Needs): Volume 23

by JulienneFord (Author), Maurice Whelan (Author), Denis Mongon (Author)

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  2018

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  First published in 1982. Between 1955 and 1980 the number of pupils in special needs schools in Britain increased tenfold. Between 1970 and 1977 the number of units for `difficult' pupils also increased tenfold and went on increasing. Some observers saw this as a welcome advance in special education, others as an extension of discrimination. The authors of this study highlight the dangers of such a provision being used as a form of social control, which may be imposed on children whose only failure is an inability to fit into the stereotype of the ideal student.