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

By: Winzer, M. A. (Margret A.), 1940-.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 1993, 2012Description: xiii, 463 p. ; 27 cm.ISBN: 9781563685514 (pbk.) :; 1563685515 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Special education -- History | Special education -- United States -- History | People with disabilities -- Education -- History | People with disabilities -- Education -- United States -- History | Mainstreaming in education -- History | Mainstreaming in education History | People with disabilities Education History | People with disabilities Education History United States | Special education History | Special education History United StatesAdditional physical formats: Online version:: History of special education.; Online version:: History of special education.
Partial contents:
Ch. 1. Disability and Society before the Eighteenth Century: Dread and Despair -- Ch. 2. Education and Enlightenment: New Views and New Methods -- Ch. 3. The Rise of Institutions, Asylums, and Public Charities -- Ch. 4. Education for Exceptional Students in North America after 1850 -- Ch. 5. Physicians, Pedagogues, and Pupils: Defining the Institutional Population -- Ch. 6. More Than Three Rs: Life in Nineteenth-Century Institutions -- Ch. 7. Teaching Exceptional Students in the Nineteenth Century -- Ch. 8. Measures and Mismeasures: The IQ Myth -- Ch. 9. The "Threat of the Feebleminded" -- Ch. 10. From Isolation to Segregation: The Emergence of Special Classes -- Ch. 11. New Categories, New Labels -- Ch. 12. Approaching Integration
List(s) this item appears in: Special Education books | Education books
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection LC 3965 .W56 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5086131

Reprint. Originally published in 1993.

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

Ch. 1. Disability and Society before the Eighteenth Century: Dread and Despair -- Ch. 2. Education and Enlightenment: New Views and New Methods -- Ch. 3. The Rise of Institutions, Asylums, and Public Charities -- Ch. 4. Education for Exceptional Students in North America after 1850 -- Ch. 5. Physicians, Pedagogues, and Pupils: Defining the Institutional Population -- Ch. 6. More Than Three Rs: Life in Nineteenth-Century Institutions -- Ch. 7. Teaching Exceptional Students in the Nineteenth Century -- Ch. 8. Measures and Mismeasures: The IQ Myth -- Ch. 9. The "Threat of the Feebleminded" -- Ch. 10. From Isolation to Segregation: The Emergence of Special Classes -- Ch. 11. New Categories, New Labels -- Ch. 12. Approaching Integration

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