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DEFENDING SPECIAL EDUCATION RIGHTS
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Author(s):
NILAY ROY
Vol - 3 , Issue- 1 ,
Page(s) : 73 - 78
(2012 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
Abstract
In 2006 and 2007 over 6.5 million children, or 13.6 percent of children enrolled in public schools in the United States, were identified as children with disabilities or special needs. Their educational paths were framed by laws designed to address the needs of each child who is thus identified. In recent years, multiple critiques have been mounted against the focus on individual rights as a basis for educating all children, with the capabilities approach offered as a promising substitute by educational and political theorists. Economists have long argued that human capital development is a more productive approach to analyzing education and justifying investment in the schooling of children.
- For more on these frameworks, see the discussion in Ingrid Robeyns, “Three Models of Education,”Theory and Research in Education 4, no. 1 (2006): 73. Robeyns concludes that the capabilities framework is the most productive approach to grounding education.
- Gary S. Becker, “Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis,”Journal of Political Economy 70, no. 5 (1962): 9–49; Gary S. Becker, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, 3rd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993); and Theodore W. Schultz, The Economic Value of Education (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963).
- Yoram Ben-Porath, “The Production of Human Capital and the Life Cycle of Earning,”Journal of Political Economy 75, no. 4, part 1 (1967): 352–365; and Zvi Griliches, “Education, Human Capital, and Growth: A Personal Perspective,”Journal of Labor Economics 15, no. 1, part 2 (1997): 330–344.
- Robeyns, “Three Models of Education,” 73.
- See Mike Oliver, The Politics of Disablement: A Sociological Approach (Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Macmillan, 1990); and Mike Oliver, Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice (Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Macmillan, 1996).
- Oliver, Understanding Disability, 22.
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