Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Special education / Uttam Kumar Singh and A. K. Nayak

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi, India : Ajay Verma For Commonwealth Publishers, c2005Description: vi, 311 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 8171694322
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC 3981 .S617 2005
Contents:
1. The Issues, Dilemmas and Origins of Special Education -- 2. Aspects of Curriculum for Special Needs -- 3. Curriculum Integration and Development -- 4. Self Concept and Affective Education -- 5. The Scope of Special Education -- 6. Special Education: Development of a Discipline -- 7. Communicatively and Contextually Appropriate Special Education.
Summary: The term special education seems to communicate to most educators and informed laypersons an activity or domain within the total educational enterprise that is specifically concerned with students who have handicapping conditions. Among such observers the term handicapped education could be accepted as a synonym for special education. However, other observers may substitute a different term, exceptional education, with the conscious or unconscious connotation that the parameter include students who are. at variance from the norm, or exceptional, in dimensions that would include the mentally gifted or talented as well. Throughout history societies have established customs, laws, and moral codes based upon the way the majority behaves. These norms have served to set the goals upon which the education of children is based and the standards according to which individuals are judged.
Item type: Books
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Graduate Studies General Circulation Gen. Ed - CEAS GC LC 3981 .S617 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000011711

1. The Issues, Dilemmas and Origins of Special Education -- 2. Aspects of Curriculum for Special Needs -- 3. Curriculum Integration and Development -- 4. Self Concept and Affective Education -- 5. The Scope of Special Education -- 6. Special Education: Development of a Discipline -- 7. Communicatively and Contextually Appropriate Special Education.

The term special education seems to communicate to most educators and informed laypersons an activity or domain within the total educational enterprise that is specifically concerned with students who have handicapping conditions. Among such observers the term handicapped education could be accepted as a synonym for special education. However, other observers may substitute a different term, exceptional education, with the conscious or unconscious connotation that the parameter include students who are. at variance from the norm, or exceptional, in dimensions that would include the mentally gifted or talented as well. Throughout history societies have established customs, laws, and moral codes based upon the way the majority behaves. These norms have served to set the goals upon which the education of children is based and the standards according to which individuals are judged.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.