Managing Special Education

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-335-19438-4
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 200 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fish, John

Fish

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Education and individual differences
The new framework
Perspectives in 1993
Basic issues and policy development
Meeting needs in schools
A range of provision
Post-16 further and continuing education
Financing special education
Major themes reviewed
An agenda for the future

Über Autor(innen)

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.