School culture and teachers’ perspectives on Special Education Needs (SEN) and disabilities within Guyana’s mainstream elementary school system

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidon Lashley ◽  
Neofilolog ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Iwona Dronia Iwona Dronia

The main goal of this article is to describe the legal status and situation of disabled learners in Poland, the UK and in other European countries. The author wishes to analyze whether the trends advocated by the principles of Political Correctness (PC) have influenced the language used in the educational context, and, in particular, towards students of special education needs (SEN). The article attempts to demonstrate that neither English nor Polish are sufficiently polite in terms of describing, categorizing, evaluating or naming all the learners, who, owing to their mental or physical impairment, have Special Educational Needs.


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