Special Needs: Segregation, Integration Or Inclusion?
Overall Theme: Segregation, integration or inclusion?
Considerations:
- History of special needs in the UK
- Conceptualisation of special needs
- Definitions of integration
- Definitions of inclusion
- Definitions of segregation
- Who should be taught what? Why?
- Purposes of education
- Personal EXP
Within the United Kingdom over the past few decades, the matter of the way in which children with learning difficulties go about being educated has been a significant issue. Essentially, there are three ways in which these children can be provided an education through segregation, integration or inclusion.
Segregation essentially means that the children who are disabled' are placed in special needs' schools that can supposedly be better suited' for them than normal' schools. Integration for the disabled is quite possibly best described as: a thousand things. It means the absence of segregation. It means social acceptance. It means being able to be treated like everybody else to be educated up to university level with one's unhandicapped peers' (Snowdon, 1976). However, whilst this description of integration sounds positive, it could be seen that Integration implies a separate population that we are seeking to bring in Inclusion is based on a planning assumption that everyone is "in" to start with' (Association of Scottish …show more content…
However, note that it was merely recommended' and not made compulsory. Therefore, Local Education Authorities (LEAs) were encouraged, but not legally required, to implement integration within schools even though the government did not provide them with any extra revenue or resources to achieve this goal. In 2000, almost 100,000 children were still in English special schools, proving that segregation was still an issue then and still is
Considerations:
- History of special needs in the UK
- Conceptualisation of special needs
- Definitions of integration
- Definitions of inclusion
- Definitions of segregation
- Who should be taught what? Why?
- Purposes of education
- Personal EXP
Within the United Kingdom over the past few decades, the matter of the way in which children with learning difficulties go about being educated has been a significant issue. Essentially, there are three ways in which these children can be provided an education through segregation, integration or inclusion.
Segregation essentially means that the children who are disabled' are placed in special needs' schools that can supposedly be better suited' for them than normal' schools. Integration for the disabled is quite possibly best described as: a thousand things. It means the absence of segregation. It means social acceptance. It means being able to be treated like everybody else to be educated up to university level with one's unhandicapped peers' (Snowdon, 1976). However, whilst this description of integration sounds positive, it could be seen that Integration implies a separate population that we are seeking to bring in Inclusion is based on a planning assumption that everyone is "in" to start with' (Association of Scottish …show more content…
However, note that it was merely recommended' and not made compulsory. Therefore, Local Education Authorities (LEAs) were encouraged, but not legally required, to implement integration within schools even though the government did not provide them with any extra revenue or resources to achieve this goal. In 2000, almost 100,000 children were still in English special schools, proving that segregation was still an issue then and still is