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Australian Special Education: Issues of the Eighties Directions for the Nineties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Jeff Bailey
Jeff Bailey*
Affiliation:
University of Southern Queensland
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Dr Jeff Bailey is Associate Professor & Head, Office of Research, University of Southern Queensland. Correspondence concerning this paper may be sent to the author at University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld. 4350.
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In the last decade, the 1980s, we have witnessed the consolidation and maturing of Special Education, a far cry from the post-Karmel era which saw a frantic rush to expand Australian Special Education, particularly in the area of teacher preparation. It is an appropriate time to review some of the key topics and issues which have shaped Special Education in Australia in the last decade and it should be a useful exercise, on the basis of mat review, to make recommendations for the next decade.

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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 16 - 25
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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1992

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