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ERIC Number: EJ336988
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Is the Growth of Special Education Evolutionary or Cyclic? A Response to Carrier.
Milofsky, Carl
American Journal of Education, v94 n3 p313-21 May 1986
Reviews an article by James G. Carrier on a social control theory of special education. Argues that Carrier ignores empirical data, and that special education programs in the United States develop cyclically, in response to specific social pressures--not, as Carrier contends, in response to a generalized movement toward a contractualist society. (KH)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Research, Educational Sociology, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Politics of Education, Public Schools, Research Methodology, Social Control, Social Structure, Special Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Contractualism; United States