Introduction
Since the passage of the Education of All Handicapped Children Act, now codified as IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the required adequate yearly progress (AYP), students are being served in various ways and the United States is striving to improve the quality of the educational practices and academic outcomes for students with disabilities (Palmer, 2015 and Stoutjesdijk, Scholte, & Swaab, 2012). In an attempt to meet the mandates of NCLB and IDEA, educators must address impediments to special education student’s academic achievement. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate how culture, specifically special education culture is keeping students with a disability from achieving academically. In the United States, there are many cultures and many …show more content…
The definition of special education culture for the purpose of this paper is “the shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs, and affective understanding of individuals with disabilities that are learned through a process of socialization” …show more content…
In the domestic United States, Rueda and Stillman (2012) advises that it is clear that culture and the role it plays is important to students receiving a good education. Researchers in another study advise that understanding the culture is the initial step in effecting a change in the educational system (Gün and Çağlayan, 2013). The general topic of discussion in an article by Santos, Ruppar, and Jeans (2012), discusses disability from the perspective of the ‘culture of disability’ and not just how culture impacts students with a disability. The above authors state in their study that the culture of disability is an area that researchers need to explore further. Palawat and May (2012) discuss how cultural background influences a person’s perception or understanding of
Since the passage of the Education of All Handicapped Children Act, now codified as IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the required adequate yearly progress (AYP), students are being served in various ways and the United States is striving to improve the quality of the educational practices and academic outcomes for students with disabilities (Palmer, 2015 and Stoutjesdijk, Scholte, & Swaab, 2012). In an attempt to meet the mandates of NCLB and IDEA, educators must address impediments to special education student’s academic achievement. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate how culture, specifically special education culture is keeping students with a disability from achieving academically. In the United States, there are many cultures and many …show more content…
The definition of special education culture for the purpose of this paper is “the shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs, and affective understanding of individuals with disabilities that are learned through a process of socialization” …show more content…
In the domestic United States, Rueda and Stillman (2012) advises that it is clear that culture and the role it plays is important to students receiving a good education. Researchers in another study advise that understanding the culture is the initial step in effecting a change in the educational system (Gün and Çağlayan, 2013). The general topic of discussion in an article by Santos, Ruppar, and Jeans (2012), discusses disability from the perspective of the ‘culture of disability’ and not just how culture impacts students with a disability. The above authors state in their study that the culture of disability is an area that researchers need to explore further. Palawat and May (2012) discuss how cultural background influences a person’s perception or understanding of