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The history of special education : from isolation to integration / Margret A. Winzer.

By: Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 1993, 2012.Description: xiii, 463 p. ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781563685514 (pbk.) :
  • 1563685515 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: History of special education.; Online version:: History of special education.LOC classification:
  • LC3965 .W56 2012
Partial contents:
Ch. 1. Disability and Society before the Eighteenth Century: Dread and Despair -- Ch. 2. Education and Enlightenment: New Views and New Methods -- Ch. 3. The Rise of Institutions, Asylums, and Public Charities -- Ch. 4. Education for Exceptional Students in North America after 1850 -- Ch. 5. Physicians, Pedagogues, and Pupils: Defining the Institutional Population -- Ch. 6. More Than Three Rs: Life in Nineteenth-Century Institutions -- Ch. 7. Teaching Exceptional Students in the Nineteenth Century -- Ch. 8. Measures and Mismeasures: The IQ Myth -- Ch. 9. The "Threat of the Feebleminded" -- Ch. 10. From Isolation to Segregation: The Emergence of Special Classes -- Ch. 11. New Categories, New Labels -- Ch. 12. Approaching Integration
List(s) this item appears in: Special Education books | Education books

Reprint. Originally published in 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 386-440) and indexes.

Ch. 1. Disability and Society before the Eighteenth Century: Dread and Despair -- Ch. 2. Education and Enlightenment: New Views and New Methods -- Ch. 3. The Rise of Institutions, Asylums, and Public Charities -- Ch. 4. Education for Exceptional Students in North America after 1850 -- Ch. 5. Physicians, Pedagogues, and Pupils: Defining the Institutional Population -- Ch. 6. More Than Three Rs: Life in Nineteenth-Century Institutions -- Ch. 7. Teaching Exceptional Students in the Nineteenth Century -- Ch. 8. Measures and Mismeasures: The IQ Myth -- Ch. 9. The "Threat of the Feebleminded" -- Ch. 10. From Isolation to Segregation: The Emergence of Special Classes -- Ch. 11. New Categories, New Labels -- Ch. 12. Approaching Integration

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