From "backwardness" to "at-risk" : childhood learning difficulties and the contradictions of school reform /

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This book examines the joint effort of twentieth-century public schoool administrators and private philanthropy to initiate reforms to provide for children with learning difficulties. The author explores the development of these reforms from the establishment of special classes for backward children...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Franklin, Barry M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1994.
Colección:SUNY series, youth social services, schooling, and public policy.
Temas:
Learning disabled children > Education > United States > History.
Children with mental disabilities > Education > Georgia > Atlanta > Case studies.
Learning disabled children > Education > Minnesota > Minneapolis > Case studies.
Enfants en difficulté d'apprentissage > Éducation > États-Unis > Histoire.
Enfants ayant une déficience intellectuelle > Éducation > Géorgie (État) > Atlanta > Études de cas.
Enfants en difficulté d'apprentissage > Éducation > Minnesota > Minneapolis > Études de cas.
EDUCATION > Special Education > Physical Disabilities.
Children with mental disabilities > Education.
Learning disabled children > Education.
Georgia > Atlanta.
Minnesota > Minneapolis.
United States.
Case studies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / William J. Reese
  • 1. Learning Difficulties and the American Public School: A Conceptual Framework
  • 2. Educating Atlanta's Backward Children, 1898-1924
  • 3. From Backwardness to L.D.: Medicalizing the Discourse of Learning Difficulties
  • 4. Private Philanthropy and the Education of Children with Learning Difficulties: From the Junior League School for Speech Correction to Whittaker Center
  • 5. The Struggle for School Reform in Minneapolis: Building Public School Programs for Low-Achieving Youth, 1930-1970
  • Epilogue: At-Risk Children and the Common School Ideal.

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