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The Des English Memorial Lecture: Journeying

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

John Elkins
John Elkins*
Affiliation:
The University of Queensland
*
Dr John Elkins is National President of the Australian Association of Special Education, Professor of Special Education and Director of the Fred and Eleanor Schonell Special Education Research Centre, University of Queensland. Correspondence concerning this paper may be sent to the author at the Faculty of Education, University of Queensland, QLD 4072.
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I am honoured to have been asked to deliver the Des English Memorial Lecture. While I never met Des English, I have long been aware of his signal contributions to the field of Special Education and have learned much in conversations with those who knew him well. It is thus a considerable challenge to respond to the invitation by the Conference Committee.

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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 5 - 15
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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1992

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