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Paula Partington; George Major; Keith Tudor – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
This article presents the culmination of the first author's experience of work at a Deaf Education Centre in Aotearoa New Zealand, alongside the themes stemming from a literature review on wellbeing and the development and maintenance of social and emotional skills for deaf students in both mainstream and special education. The predominant themes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Students, Well Being
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Mitchell, David R. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1996
This article considers how special education intersects with general education reforms in reference to such issues as choice, contestability, decentralization, and accountability. Particular attention is given to events in New Zealand since the institution of educational administration reforms in 1989. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Accountability, Decentralization, Disabilities, Educational Administration
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Wilton, Keri – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1994
This paper argues that New Zealand's policy to close special classes for students with mild intellectual disability represents a premature and unsound reduction in available educational options and that available resources are grossly insufficient to provide quality special educational services for all "children with educational and social…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy, Financial Support, Foreign Countries