SENCOs: vanguards or in vain?

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URL : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-3802.2012.01249.x/ abstract

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  • Description: In Sweden today, special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs) are educated at universities to help resolve educational problems related to children in need of special support at three levels; that is, the organisational level, the classroom level and the individual level. Prior to the 1990s, special teachers were the occupational group that worked primarily on an individual level and children's school problems were seen as individual deficits. SENCOs can be seen as vanguards in changing an educational system from primarily focusing on an individual perspective to a broader focus on the entire learning environment. The overall aim of this study was to investigate possible changes within a school system when the introduction of a new occupational group, SENCOs, challenges established structures.
  • Type: Report : None

    • Relationships

  • Member of:
  • Collection : Learning Disabilities and CAMHS : Research
  • Collection : Learning Disabilities and CAMHS: Special educational needs (SEN)
  • Collection : School health: Research
  • Collection : School health: Commissioners
  • Collection : School health: Providers
  • Collection : School health: Learning disabilities

  • Author


  • Gunilla Lindqvist

    • Publishing

  • Published by: Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs
  • Published date: Thursday, 14th June 2012 00:00:00

    • Coverage

  • Geographical Coverage: International

    • Subject

  • Unrefined: SEN
  • Keywords (National Public Health Language):
  • CHILD
  • CHILDREN
  • EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS
  • EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND SKILLS
  • EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS
  • EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
  • LEARNING DISABILITIES
  • OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS
  • ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE
  • RESEARCH
  • SCHOOLS
  • SPECIAL EDUCATION
  • Category (Government Category List):
  • ECOLOGY
  • OCCUPATIONS AND EMPLOYEES
  • RESEARCH
  • YOUNG PEOPLE

    • Other

  • Source: Article first published online: 14 JUN 2012. DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-3802.2012.01249.x

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    • URL : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-3802.2012.01249.x/ abstract

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