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The Education of African-American Learners with Behavior Disorders: An Unresolved Issue for General and Special Educators. Position Paper.
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Obiakor, Festus E. – 1994
This paper addresses critical questions concerning the educational needs of African American students with behavior disorders. These include: the historical context; effects of reform and restructuring movements on this population; the unresolved issue of defining "seriously emotionally disturbed" or "emotional or behavior…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Black Students, Definitions, Educational Change
A Cultural-Organizational Perspective on Special Education and the Exclusion of Youth with Social Maladjustment: Second Invited Reaction to the Maag and Howell Paper.
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Webber, Jo – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1992
This response to Maag and Howell (EC 602 677) stresses that the prevention and treatment of students' emotional and behavioral problems requires system restructuring, a change of values, and such coercive change techniques as a revised, more inclusive, federal definition of emotional and behavioral disorders. (DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Change Strategies, Cultural Influences, Definitions