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An impulse to Soar: Sanitisation, Silencing and Special Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Loretta R. Giorcelli*
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales
*
Address for correspondence: Dr Loretta R Giorcelli, Special Education and Disability Studies, The University of New South Wales, PO Box 88. Oatley NSW 2223.

Extract

The Des English Memorial Lecture provides an unique opportunity each year to reflect on the history that has brought us together and has carried us to this point in the evolution of the discipline of special education. It provides us with a time to dream, a time to foreshadow, a time to hint or guess at the better world that we strive to create in our classrooms each day, in our schools each week and in our administrative or academic systems each year. There are many lessons from the educational past for us to heed as we move forward towards the 21st Century and help forge the changes that our schools and services must necessarily undergo in order to serve well future generations of students with special academic and social needs.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1996

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