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The history of special education : from isolation to integration / Margret A. Winzer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 1993.Description: xiii, 463 p. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 1563680181
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC3965 .W56 1993
Contents:
1. Disability and society before the eighteenth century: dread and despair -- 2. Education and enlightenment: new views and new methods -- 3. The rise of institutions, asylums, and public charities -- 4. Education for exceptional students in North America after 1850 -- 5. Physicians, pedagogues, and pupils: defining the institutional population -- 6. More than three Rs: life in nineteenth-century institutions -- 7. Teaching exceptional students in the nineteenth century -- 8. Measures and mismeasures: the IQ myth -- 9. The "threat of the feebleminded" -- 10. From isolation to segregation: the emergence of special classes -- 11. New categories, new labels -- 12. Approaching integration.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks LC3965.W56 1993 1 Available 33710000860986

Includes bibliographical references (p. 386-440) and indexes.

WAR, NEWBERY,

1. Disability and society before the eighteenth century: dread and despair -- 2. Education and enlightenment: new views and new methods -- 3. The rise of institutions, asylums, and public charities -- 4. Education for exceptional students in North America after 1850 -- 5. Physicians, pedagogues, and pupils: defining the institutional population -- 6. More than three Rs: life in nineteenth-century institutions -- 7. Teaching exceptional students in the nineteenth century -- 8. Measures and mismeasures: the IQ myth -- 9. The "threat of the feebleminded" -- 10. From isolation to segregation: the emergence of special classes -- 11. New categories, new labels -- 12. Approaching integration.