A Cultural-Organizational Perspective on Special Education and the Exclusion of Youth with Social Maladjustment: Second Invited Reaction to the Maag and Howell Paper.

Webber, Jo

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ERIC Number: EJ441374

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Publication Date: 1992

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A Cultural-Organizational Perspective on Special Education and the Exclusion of Youth with Social Maladjustment: Second Invited Reaction to the Maag and Howell Paper.

Webber, Jo

Remedial and Special Education (RASE), v13 n1 p60-62 Jan-Feb 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, Disability Discrimination, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility, Emotional Disturbances, Federal Legislation, Intervention, Prevention, Social Adjustment, Social Change, Special Education, Values

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Special Issue: Current Issues in Remedial and Special Education: Critiques and Invited Reactions.