Special educational needs : a new look

Special Educational Needs: A New Look by Mary Warnock was initially published by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain in 2005. In this new edition, Warnock has updated her argument, Brahm Norwich has contributed a counter-argument and Lorella Terzi has provided an introduction and afterword, drawing the two debates together.

The issues debated in this new edition of Special Educational Needs: A New Look include:
The statement of special educational need
The concept of inclusion

Special Educational Needs: A New Look raises issues which will be of interest to all involved in special education and inclusion, including teachers, policy makers and educationalists.

Author Notes

Mary Warnock was born Helen Mary Wilson in Winchester, England on April 14, 1924. She studied classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She taught philosophy at St. Hugh's College, Oxford from 1949 to 1966. She was the headmistress of the all-girl Oxford High School from 1966 until 1972 and was the mistress of Girton College at the University of Cambridge from 1984 to 1991.

She served on government panels that examined special education and laboratory experimentation using animals and was the chairwoman of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilization and Embryology in 1982. She was appointed a dame commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1984 and became a life peer the following year. She took the title Baroness Warnock of Weeke and a seat in the House of Lords, from which she retired in 2015. She died after a fall on March 20, 2019 at the age of 94.

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Christopher WinchLorella TerziMary WarnockBrahm NorwichMary WarnockLorella Terzi

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Series Editor's Preface - Key Debates in Educational Policy	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
References	p. 9
1 Special Educational Needs: A New Look	p. 11
Overview	p. 11
1 The historical background	p. 15
2 The statement of special educational needs reconsidered	p. 24
3 The ideal of inclusion reconsidered	p. 32
4 Conclusions	p. 43
References	p. 45
2 A Response to 'Special Educational Needs: A New Look'	p. 47
Introduction	p. 47
1 Immediate responses to the pamphlet	p. 48
2 A detailed examination of 'Special Educational Needs: A New Look'	p. 57
3 What future for special educational needs, statements and inclusion?	p. 83
4 Concluding comments	p. 109
References	p. 111
3 Response to Brahm Norwich	p. 115
References	p. 140
Afterword: Difference, equality and the ideal of inclusion in education	p. 143
1 Identifying children's differences in education: needs or capabilities?	p. 144
2 Inclusion, inclusive education and capability equality	p. 153
References	p. 163
Index	p. 165

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