Background and design. Report no 1.

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HIF-Rapport

2002:6

Background and Design

Report No 1

Gunnar Stangvik

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Finnmark University College

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PUBLICATION NUMBER:

HiF-Rapport 2002:6

ISBN:

82-7938-069-8

ISSN:

0805-1062

Title:

Background and Design Report No 1

Antall sider:

47

Dato:

14.11.2002

Pris: NOK 45,- Author:

Gunnar Stangvik

Faculty:

Education and Liberal Arts

Funding institution::

The Research Council of Norway and Finnmark University College

Project:

Special Education at the Bottom Line. A Cross-Cultural Study of Special Education Practice

Summary:

This is the first of six reports from the project that studies special education in Russia, New Zealand and the USA. It consists of two parts. Part one describes the background of the project. Research studies of special education shows codes of practice and outcomes that are at best controversial, and studies of such practices by the author and

collaborators, and by others, show that Norwegian special education is lagging behind its own adopted policies. The most prominent models of work simply do not match these policies. One explanation may be that stakeholders hold values that are not consonant with practices favoured by new policies. This is not a particular Norwegian problem, but a critical problem that seems to haunt nations with similar policies. The point of departure for the research is that it is necessary to know what stakeholders judge as 'best practices'.

Answers to this question are necessary in order to do research evaluations of the practices and outcomes. The aim of the project described in part II is to afford some answers to this question. The global agenda of special education assumes that cross- cultural studies would have greater validity than single nation studies. Therefore the field studies of the project were undertaken in three countries - New Zealand, Russia and the United States. Part II describes methods, design and subject of these studies.

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