An Organizational Analysis of Special Education Reform.

Autor/in	Skrtic, Thomas M.
Titel	An Organizational Analysis of Special Education Reform.
Quelle	(1987), (60 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Cultural Influences; Disabilities; Educational Legislation; Educational Philosophy; Etiology; Organizational Change; Political Issues; School Organization; Special Education; Theories; Values + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Handicap; Behinderung; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Ätiologie; Organisationswandel; Politischer Faktor; School organisation; Schulorganisation; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Theory; Theorie; Wertbegriff
Abstract	The paper identifies current special education practice and the current organization of schools as instrumental in actually creating the category of mildly handicapped students. A dichotomy between departments of special education and educational administration is noted. Only replacement of the system with an entirely different configuration and not rational technical efforts at reform can effect real change. There is a lack of theoretical basis to the mainstreaming debate and in the original formulation of Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Special education has erred in locating the cause of disability within the person and excluding from consideration causal factors lying in the larger external social, political, and organizational processes. Among topics considered in support of this argument are: school organization and change, professional bureaucracies as machines, response to change demands, organizational paradigms and change, values/power, school organization and disability, the nature of special education, the nature of progress, empirical evidence on the implementation of P.L. 94-142, and prospects for the future. An extensive bibliography is appended. (DB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC