Schooling Children with Down Syndrome: Toward an Understanding of Possibility

Schooling Children with Down Syndrome: Toward an Understanding of Possibility

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Special Education Series (New York, NY)

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This volume explores Down syndrome disability in the cultural context of the school. The author traces the history of community banishment on people with Down syndrome. Based on fieldwork, and using examples, the author describes school contexts currently resisting traditions of segregation. -- Provided by publisher

Keywords

Children with mental disabilities -- Education -- Social aspects -- United States; Down syndrome -- Social aspects -- United States; Educational anthropology -- United States;

Document Type

Book

ISBN

9780807737316

Publication Date

1998

Publisher

Teachers College Press

City

New York, NY

Department

Department of Special Education

Object Description

xix, 167 p. ; 24 cm

Language

en

Schooling Children with Down Syndrome: Toward an Understanding of Possibility

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