The Warnock Report

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ASSIGNMENT 2 WARNOCK REPORT QUESTION:

IN WHAT WAY DID THE WARNOCK COMMISSION REPORT CONTRIBUTE OR INFLUENCE SPECIAL EDUCATION

All over the world in the past the education of children with disabilities has not been considered seriously and nobody bothered to look if they needed education at all, because even the very parents who had them, kept them in secret because they were either a considered a curse to the family or to the society. Therefore, the Warnock Report, named after Mary Warnock saw it deemed that she does a research and assessment of the needs of children thus forming a commission which brought about the dealing away with categorisation and looking at the needs and also re-enforced the education system in 1978. Further considered how the teaching and learning could be best brought about wherever there are children who have particular difficulties and how to overcome those difficulties. It is with this respect that the paper attempts to find the ways in which the Warnock Commission Report (1978) contributed or influenced special education.

Under the 1944 Education Act children with special educational needs were defined in medical terms and categorised according to their disabilities. Many of those children were considered as ‘uneducable’ and were labelled as ‘maladjusted’ or ‘educationally sub-normal’, and they were given ‘special educational treatment’ in special schools or institutions. In these special schools (institutions) the rights of the children were not considered, as children were socially alienated from family and the society from where they lived. Though the grouping of children with similar disabilities looked positive in the past, such children were deprived their right to association with their peer...

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...ated in the mainstream schools. This resulted in a beginning of a certain trend in the UK, where children were provided with extra support within the classroom rather than being withdrawn from the classroom for their special help, http://www.bookrags.com/tandf/warnock-report

Though the organisations, scientists and therapists and politicians had criticised the Warnock Report, it is important to note that this Report benefited the development of education systems especially in the special educational needs, that were enhanced through teacher training, swift learning curve, the social, locational, and functional integration, opening room for the curriculum policy document to address special needs for the disadvantaged children.

Works Cited

http://www.suite101.com/content/an-overview-of-inclusion-in-uk-education, http://www.bookrags.com/tandf/warnock-report

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