Comparative Studies in Special Education / Kas Mazurek, Margret A. Winzer, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Winzer, M. A. (Margret A.), 1940-

Mazurek, Kas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Special education--Cross-cultural studies.

Special education.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxix, 477 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Gallaudet University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This unequaled collection of international programs will enable educators worldwide to investigate special education practice within its social context to enhance their own initiatives with new ideas.Comparative Studies divides into five sections, each with an introduction to the chapters within. This thorough text begins with limited special education in such venues as South Africa and Senegal. Section Two addresses emerging special education in Nigeria, Brazil, and several other locales. Segregated special education in Japan, Russia, and other countries makes up Section Three, and Section Four explores countries that are approaching integration, such as Poland and Australia. Integrated special education is described in Scandinavia, New Zealand and other nations in the final section.More than 50 noted scholars have contributed to this important work, offering an indispensable, detailed frame of reference for assessing education programs worldwide for all special populations -- blind, deaf, physically and mentally disabled, and all others.Kas Mazurek is Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, at the University of Lethbridge, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.Margret A. Winzer is Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, at the University of Lethbridge, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.ISBN 1-56368-027-0, 7 x 10 casebound, 516 pages, photos, illustrations, tables, author index, subject index

Contents:

South Africa / David R. Donald

Papua New Guinea / Barend Vlaardingerbroek, Ambrose Tottenham, Graeme Leach

Senegal / Sabou Sarr

West Bank and Gaza Strip / Samir J. Dukmak

Nigeria / Theresa B. Abang

Islamic Republic of Iran / G. Ali Afrooz

Brazil / Lucia Comes Vieira Dellagnelo

Indonesia / Conny Semiawan

Egypt / Wasfy Aziz Boulos

Pakistan / Mah Nazir Riaz

China / Xu Yun

India / Rita Agrawal

Uruguay

Eloisa Garcia de Lorenzo

Japan / Giichi Misawa

Taiwan / Yung-Hwa Chen, Tai-Hwa Emily Lu.

Russia / Vladimir I. Lubovsky, Evgenija Nikolaevno Martsinovskaja

Czechoslovakia / Marie Cerna

Hong Kong / Nick Crawford, Mark Bray

Israel / Yaacov Rand, Rivka Reichenberg

Poland / Wladyslawa Pilecka, Jan Pilecki

Australia / Geoffrey Swan

Canada / Margret A. Winzer

Finland, Norway, and Sweden / Kari Tuunainene

United States / Betty A. Hallenbeck, James M. Kauffman

New Zealand / David Mitchell, Patricia O'Brien

England and Wales / John Dwyfor Davies, Maeve Landman.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781563681943

1563681943

OCLC:

632353793