Special Education in the Context of Educational Shifts towards Inclusion

• Authors: Beata Papuda-Dolińska

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyzes a confusion in the special education field caused by paradigm shifts towards social model of disability and inclusive model of education of children with special needs. Theoretical considerations concern the changes in the subject of the special education field’s interests, terminology, teaching methods and methodology employed by a special education discipline. In the paper special education’s and inclusive education’s assumptions were confronted. As it turned out, in many points they are contradictory. Especially, the notion and practice of categorization rooted in traditional special education and demonstrable in special needs definition, teachers’ training or teaching methods seem to be very difficult challenges for implementation of inclusive education.

Keywords

EN

special education; inclusive education; special educational needs; disability

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Kultura i Edukacja
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 2(120)
• Pages: 174-191

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Beata Papuda-Dolińska

• Maria-Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/kie.2018.02.11

Biblioteka Nauki

1985556