History of Special Education A Struggle for Equality in American Public Schools

Name: History of Special Education A Struggle for Equality in American Public Schools
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ISBN: 9780275989132

ISBN-10: 0275989135

ISBN-13: 9780275989132

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert L. Osgood

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Osgood examines the history of the school lives of children placed in formal or informal special education settings in American public schools during the last 120 years. As the public school system in the United States grew throughout the 20th century, special education became a recognized and dependable, but marginalized, arm of public schooling. Throughout the 1900s, special education emerged as its own world in many ways, developing policies, practices, structures, and an identity that became increasingly important as the public school bureaucracy grew and the school population became more diverse and inclusive. This work describes and interprets the nature and characteristics of special…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

ROBERT L. OSGOOD is Associate Professor of Education, Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis.



Series Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Changing Worlds of American Children, 1800-1940



Life in Institutions to 1940



Public Schools and the Accommodation of Students with Disabilities to 1940



The Worlds of Childhood Disability, 1940-1960: Generating Public Awareness



Ensuring the Rights and Enhancing the Lives of Children with Disabilities in and out of the Classroom, 1960-1980



Voices of the Present, Echoes from the Past: Considering the Lives of Children with Disabilities


Bibliography


Name Index


Subject Index