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Home > University > Educational studies > Why did Mary Warnock review her report on SEN thirty years later? Why did Mary Warnock review her report on SEN thirty years later?You can download this essay for free. All you need to do is register and submit at least one of your essays to us. Or you can purchase this essay for just $2 instantly without registering
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| Words: 1516 | Submitted: 22-Apr-2011 This is what the first 3 pages of the essay look like    DescriptionIt's about provision of SEN and inclusionPreviewAccording to the United Nation’s convention on the rights of the child, every child hasa right to education. This also means that even children with special educational needs must have access to education, whether in a mainstream school or a specialised school. That is why for years, inclusion has been an issue, the main problem being whether to include children with special educational needs into mainstream schools or not. In this essay we are going to have a look at the Warnock Report and why was the committee set up. We will also look at the reasons why Mary Warnock changed her mind about what she said before in the report some twenty five years later and how far was she justified in changing her mind. Finally, we will look at some of the positive side of the report. The 1944 Education Act (Pluckrose,1987) made local Education Authorities responsible for providing education for all children according to their needs, aptitudes and abilities. Whilst it was intended that children with minor handicaps would be able to attend mainstream schools, the Act required the blind, deaf, epileptic, physically handicapped and aphasic children must be educated in special schools. For these children who needed special education in the 1950’s and 1960’s were years of isolation (Pluckrose, 1987). The 1970’s paved the way for a new approach to special needs. In the summer 1974, a committee chaired by Mary Warnock was established to consider how to make educational provisions for the handicapped more effective. Finally in 1978, the Warnock Report, “The Education Of Handicapped Children and Young People”, was published. The document provided the foundation for great changes in education for children having special needs. The report covered any student learning needs that could not be met by teachers in a typical mainstream classroom and advocated inclusion rather than special schools. Lady Warnock claimed that “we should consider the ideal of including all children in the common educational enterprise of learning, wherever they can learn best” (Mittler, 2008). Among the two hundred and twenty five recommendations made by the report was the need to abolish the use of categories, which is seen as damaging and irrelevant. The Warnock Committee advocated “ a continuum of special needs, rather that discrete categories” (Warnock, 2010). It was suggested in the report (DES1978a in Alexander, 1997) that only two per cent of the school population required separate educational provision, but that there were another eighteen percent of children who would require special provision in normal schools. The report also emphasized on the importance of effective assessment (DES, 1978 in Wall, 2011). Early identification of ... Download this essay in full now!Just upload at one of your essays to our database and instantly download your selection! Registration takes secondsOr you can download this essay for $2 immediately without registeringComments and reviewsReviews are written by members who have downloaded the essay No comments yet. If you download the essay you can review it afterwards. |
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