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ERIC Number: EJ293959
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983
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Policies toward the Integration of Mentally Handicapped Children in Education.
Booth, Tony
Oxford Review of Education, v9 n3 p255-68 1983
The forces for the segregation of mentally handicapped children still predominate over the forces for integration in Great Britain. The desire to keep the mentally handicapped segregated comes not from educational or medical considerations but from the stratified nature of the educational system and the political agenda of the conservative government. (IS)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Homogeneous Grouping, Mainstreaming, Mental Retardation, Public Opinion, Special Education
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Great Britain