著者

八幡 ゆかり Yukari YAWATA

出版者

鳴門教育大学

雑誌

鳴門教育大学研究紀要 = Research bulletin of Naruto University of Education (ISSN:18807194)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.23, pp.128-141, 2008-03-03

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The meaning of the mental retardation special class is asked with the shift to the special support education from special education.Then, it set for the purpose of clarifying meaning of a mental retardation special class, and decided to investigate the history.The result was as follows.That it was common in prewar days and the postwar period suited meaning's of a special class securing the place of entering school.As the reason, it became a problem that mental retardation children have not usually received suitable education in a class.In prewar days, the government set special class installation for the purpose of being useful for a country.Teachers considered special class installation soon prewar days and after the war formental retardation children.Then, parents and the educational persons concerned developed movement which demands special class installation to the government in the1950s.Deterioration of a teacher's quality became a problem about the educational contents with extension of a special class in the1969s.Moreover, integrated education was proposed in order to solve the discrimination and prejudice to the disabled in the1970s.It was thought that meaning was in a special class having a role which abolishes the discrimination and prejudice to the disabled to a school or a community at the same time.The meaning of a special class is in the place which receives suitable education as a place of entering school also in special support education.Therefore, the teachers of the special class concern themselves positively with parents, the school, andthe community.