HISTORY OF SPECIAL EDUCATION

History of special education

History of special education

The history of special education has been linked historically to the concept and the idea that had of the person who needed this support. In this article we can see his evolution from they considered something of witchcraft seemed no solution until you get the obligatory of education for all. Then, the input stage of the normalization principle will led to school integration posed an education in which all children receive education in the same classroom, with supports and accommodations that they require. Until the mid-nineteenth century, special education does not come as a body of knowledge pedagogical training of persons charged with some kind of deficiency. Prior to this, the future of these people was very different, in principle, the children who were born or developed any type of problem used to be eliminated?

Ancient societies

I would like to talk about special education in old societies. They dominated the demonological model which posits that when a person has a anomalous behavior is because he is possessed by some kind of be like to be a demon, a spirit ... for them, these problems had some people were a thing of witchcraft. On the other hand, and now a little further, we must place in them as the source of bio-medical model, which explains this behavior as caused by an imbalance of person.

MODEL Demonologist:

So demonological model can be understood as an attempt to unscientific explanation of behavior that can be considered as abnormal. This model defines an undifferentiated concept of abnormality that did not allow distinctions between disorders. These thoughts have had a lot to do with the historical path followed by therapeutic procedures. The approach used was all we could refer to as "unscientific", i.e. the opposite of logic or any reaction from any scientific evidence. So good for explaining the behavior be possessed by a spirit of good and bad behavior, of course, by being possessed by an evil spirit in this case.

Biological Model

The biological model for its part argued the cause for this behavior abnormal body a biological imbalance in the idea of human nature. Here we first find the start of the "theoretical medicine" where we find people with medical training will highlight the need to provide education to the poor. This shows that they are people who can more or less learn, contrary to what was thought until now. Therapeutic baths were one of the clearest examples of this fact. Special education based on the ideology of normalization is a polysemic concept that to different interpretations. Under the concept of integration is hiding several speeches, models and interests. Depending on the priorities of integration and three different approaches.

Average Age Or Psychiatric period of darkness

After the previous period, we arrive at middle age or period of darkness psychiatric. Right now return to your demonological model, making it difficult medical intervention. At the same time highlight the efforts of the Church in various fields: efforts ...