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The history of special education : from isolation to integration /

This comprehensive volume examines the facts, characters, and events that shaped this field in Western Europe, Canada, and the United States. From the first efforts to teach disabled people in early Christian and Medieval eras to such current mandates as Public Law 94-142, this study breaks new grou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Winzer, M. A. (Margret A.), 1940-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 1993.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Disability and society before the eighteenth century: dread and despair
  • Education and enlightenment: new views and new methods
  • The rise of institutions, asylums, and public charities
  • Education for exceptional students in North America after 1850
  • Physicians, pedagogues, and pupils: defining the institutional population
  • More than three Rs: life in nineteenth-century institutions
  • Teaching exceptional students in the nineteenth century
  • Measures and mismeasures: the IQ myth
  • The "threat of the feebleminded"
  • From isolation to segregation: the emergence of special classes
  • New categories, new labels
  • Approaching integration.