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Acknowledging quality in New Zealand special education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Keri Wilton
Keri Wilton*
Affiliation:
University of Auckland, Auckland NZ
*
Presidential address to Third National Conference of the New Zealand Special Education Association - Auckland, May 1992. Correspondence should be directed to Associate Professor Keri Wilton, University of Auckland, Auckland NZ
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Abstract

New Zealand has much of real quality to be proud of in special education. On numerous international surveys of education, New Zealand schools continue to rank highly - especially with respect to reading and written language, and were such surveys to focus on special educational matters, my guess is that the picture would be equally positive. There are very real difficulties in developing special educational provisions for a country with New Zealand’s geographical characteristics. New Zealand has a relatively small total population, which is scattered widely across a rather large and geographically well separated area, and these factors make for real problems in providing for children with difficulties which occur infrequently - as do most conditions associated with exceptionality and special education.

Type
Research Article
Information
Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 14 - 19
Copyright
Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1993

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