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The Effects of the Sociopolitical Environment on Developments in Special Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

James M. Kauffman
James M. Kauffman*
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University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA
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Abstract

The current sociopolitical context of special education is one of dangerous currents. I will give a brief overview of three of these currents and then discuss how we might proceed to avoid their taking us where we don’t want to go.

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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 3 - 13
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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1993

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Keynote presentation at the Australian Association of Special Education Conference, Perth, Western Australia, October, 1992. Preparation of this presentation was supported in part by the Commonwealth Centre for the Education of Teachers, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia

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