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ERIC Number: EJ322851
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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The Expansion of Special Education.
Tomlinson, Sally
Oxford Review of Education, v11 n2 p157-65 1985
Special education in Great Britain is expanding, as part of a restructuring of the education-training system to deal with many young people who are unable or unwilling to participate in normal education. The whole concept of special needs has become part of a rhetoric that serves little educational purpose. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Special Education, Unemployment
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Great Britain