Special Education and the Exclusion of Youth with Social Maladjustments
Maag, John, W.; Howell, Kenneth, W.; Maag, John, W., John W. Maag, PbD, is assistant professor of special education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has published extensively in the area of behavioral disorders. His current research interests include cognitive characteristics of depression in students with mild handicaps, self-management training, and social skills assessment and training. Address: John W. Maag, Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders, 202 Barkley Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoh, Lincoln, NE 68583-0732.; Howell, Kenneth, W., Kenneth W. Howell, PbD, is professor of special education at Western Washington University. He has published several books and tests that describe, or make use of; a taskanalytic approach to instruction and evaluation. His current research interests include curriculum-based evaluation, social skills assessment and training, and programming issues in the education and treatment of youths with mild handicaps.
Журнал:
Remedial and Special Education
Дата:
1992
Аннотация:
The authors address the current controversy regarding the exclusion of youths labeled socially maladjusted from special education services under the auspices of the seriously emotionally disturbed (SED) category. Both proponents and opponents of serving these students base their arguments largely on the analysis of specijk child characteristics that can differentiate between social maladjustment and serious emotional disturbance. Subscribing to this child-centered perspective limits the discussion and potential for its resolution. Rather than attempting to refute or support arguments presented by both sides in this debate, the authors have chosen to reconceptualize the issue from a cultural-organizational perspective. From this view-point, calls to exclude youths who are socially maladjusted result from a society that has Zittle tolerance for “deviant” behavior, and from schools that must maintain their legitimacy and popular support. Distinctions are made among participants in what has become a characteristic special education conflict.
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