Special Education in Chinese Society: A Cultural Perspective

Special Education in Chinese Society: A Cultural Perspective

• Cheng, Kai Ming The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong Special Education Forum, 1(2), 1-9, 1998

Special Education Society of Hong Kong Ltd.

1998

• E Special Education
• P Social Context of Education
  • PC Society & Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

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Special education is necessarily an integral part of universal basic education. Therefore special education has seen substantial development in the past decade in most Chinese societies, which have all accomplished remarkable degrees of universal basic education. However, developing special education, by fundamental principles, is based on the needs of the individual children. Such principles are rather foreign to Chinese education systems which assume that individuals should submit themselves to community needs, and education is the very means to realise such an assumption. Nonetheless, special education also assumes that barriers to learning caused by innate disabilities could be overcome by efforts, but this is very much also basic to the values of education in Chinese societies. This short paper purports to illustrate the interplay between special education and the traditional education values in Chinese societies. Copyright by Special Education Society of Hong Kong Limited. All Rights Reserved.

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