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ERIC Number: EJ552081
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4669
Competing Notions of Social Justice and Contradictions in Special Education Reform.
Christensen, Carol A.; Dorn, Sherman
Journal of Special Education, v31 n2 p181-98 Sum 1997
Competing ideas of social justice, based on either individual rights or communitarian principles, are related to apparent contradictions in special education practice in response to pressures for reform. Special education reform is seen to require a relational definition of the self, structures to support relationships, and a belief in the mutability of social justice. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Change, Social Discrimination, Special Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Reform Efforts; Social Justice