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Special Education for all Educators are we Ready?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Jim Irvine
Jim Irvine*
Affiliation:
The University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W.
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Educators currently in senior positions in our public education and training institutions experienced school as children in a New Zealand society very different from 1987. In theirprofessional careers, they have witnessed some staggering changes to which they have had to adjust.

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Research Article
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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , November 1988 , pp. 2 - 11
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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1988

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