Middle School Students with High Incidence Disabilities: Perceptions of the Special Education Experience

Middle School Students with High Incidence Disabilities: Perceptions of the Special Education Experience
By:
Published on 2008 by ProQuest

In the United States there are currently more than 6,500,000 students receiving special education services in our public schools. Of those over 2,000,000 are ages 12 to 15. Middle school children diagnosed with the three most commonly occurring disabilities number 1,564,118 with almost 44,000 in Arizona (U.S. Department of Education, 2007.) The purpose of this study was to address the lack of research employing a phenomenological approach to gain insight and improved understanding of the experience of children ages 12 to 15 years who receive special education services to address their high incidence disabilities. In-depth interviews with nine children who live the intersect of middle school and high incidence disabilities were used to give these early adolescents opportunities to voice their perceptions of how the system of special education affects them and their life choices. Two major themes identified were the students' preferences for full inclusive and need for active roles in placement decisions. Findings of this study may lead the discourse toward development of more holistic and humanistic practices.

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Drama, Narrative and Moral Education

Drama, Narrative and Moral Education
By:"Joe Winston"
Published on 2005-06-21 by Routledge

Teachers are expected to take responsibility for children's moral development, particularly in the primary years, but how best to go about approaching the issues? In this book, the author explores a classroom approach that uses both drama and narrative stories to explore moral issues: drama gives children an opportunity to work through moral problems, make decisions and take up moral positions; stories offer a resource for moral education whereby children can learn through the 'experiences' of those in the story. Through providing a number of case studies, the author shows how this may be done by practitioners in the lassroom.

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