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ERIC Number: EJ667404
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0017-8055
Special Education's Changing Identity: Paradoxes and Dilemmas in Views of Culture and Space.
Artiles, Alfredo J.
Harvard Educational Review, v73 n2 p164-202 Sum 2003
Reviews literature on exclusion and overrepresentation in special education, finding lack of dialogue between these discourse communities. Analyzes concepts of "culture" and "space." Concludes that practitioners and researchers should acknowledge assumptions about difference, culture, and space to improve the experience of marginalized students who are overrepresented in special education. (Contains 127 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Culture, Disabilities, Disproportionate Representation, Educational Change, Educational Research, Inclusive Schools, Minority Groups, Politics of Education, Special Education, Student Placement
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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