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Book Review: Introduction to Exceptional Children

Book Review: Introduction to Exceptional Children 206 BOOK REVIEWS section were made good from other sources, the book could well serve as a basic textbook for courses in evaluation for graduate teachers, and also for students in primary teachers’ colleges. D. SPEARRITT, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Sydney. Introduction to Exceptional Children. Harry J. Baker. Macmillan. 1959. Rev. Pp. 523. $6.50. Here is a time-tested book in its third revision. It is rich in suggestions for dealing with problems of deviants-mentally retarded, slow-learning, and gifted children as well as those with personality and neurological disorders, the blind, hard-of-hearing, crippled, and speech-handicapped. The distinguishing feature of this particular revision is the increased emphasis on (a) disorders of mental health and deviant behaviour which are of great concern to teachers, school administrators, and parents, and (b) “ the team approach ” to problems of exceptional children. Discussion highlights new discoveries and interpretations brought from their respective fields by team members such as the medical specialist, psychologist, social worker, nurse, parent, and teacher. In the final chapter, a courageous attempt is made to show that “the schools alone cannot or should not be expected to carry the complete responsi- bility for exceptional children ”. Although the book is written primarily for educators, it would be useful for any team member concerned with problems of children who are deviants. MARGARET B. PARKE, Professor of Education, Brooklyn College, New York. Catholic Education in Australia, 1806-1950. T. P. Fogarty (Bro. Ronald). 2 vols. Melbourne University Press, 1959. Pp. 567. f5. This is a monumental work, which far outdistances any other work so far published in the History of Education in Australia. Bro. Ronald displays a thorough grasp of most of the relevant source material, and has used it effectively and well. Throughout, he has developed the history of Catholic education in careful association with the general educa- tion of the period, demonstrating clearly its various phases and problems in the setting of the overall problems and developments of education throughout Australia. He has attempted, a little less happily perhaps, also to assess the impact of social and philosophical trends on the growth of Catholic educational ideas and practices. He endeavours, for example, to establish a relationship between liberalism and the development of educational ideas in the mid-nineteenth century, and demonstrates clearly that there was a belief current among a number of the clergy that there was an association between liberalism and secularism in education. Gladstone and Forster in England would have been somewhat nonplussed had it been suggested to them that they had joined hands with the secularists. To make this connection convincingly, therefore, for the Australian situation, one would need to indicate the factors which may have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Book Review: Introduction to Exceptional Children

Parke, Margaret B.
Australian Journal of Education , Volume 4 (3): 1 – Nov 1, 1960
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© 1960 Australian Council for Educational Research
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206 BOOK REVIEWS section were made good from other sources, the book could well serve as a basic textbook for courses in evaluation for graduate teachers, and also for students in primary teachers’ colleges. D. SPEARRITT, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Sydney. Introduction to Exceptional Children. Harry J. Baker. Macmillan. 1959. Rev. Pp. 523. $6.50. Here is a time-tested book in its third revision. It is rich in suggestions for dealing with problems of deviants-mentally retarded, slow-learning, and gifted children as well as those with personality and neurological disorders, the blind, hard-of-hearing, crippled, and speech-handicapped. The distinguishing feature of this particular revision is the increased emphasis on (a) disorders of mental health and deviant behaviour which are of great concern to teachers, school administrators, and parents, and (b) “ the team approach ” to problems of exceptional children. Discussion highlights new discoveries and interpretations brought from their respective fields by team members such as the medical specialist, psychologist, social worker, nurse, parent, and teacher. In the final chapter, a courageous attempt is made to show that “the schools alone cannot or should not be expected to carry the complete responsi- bility for exceptional children ”. Although the book is written primarily for educators, it would be useful for any team member concerned with problems of children who are deviants. MARGARET B. PARKE, Professor of Education, Brooklyn College, New York. Catholic Education in Australia, 1806-1950. T. P. Fogarty (Bro. Ronald). 2 vols. Melbourne University Press, 1959. Pp. 567. f5. This is a monumental work, which far outdistances any other work so far published in the History of Education in Australia. Bro. Ronald displays a thorough grasp of most of the relevant source material, and has used it effectively and well. Throughout, he has developed the history of Catholic education in careful association with the general educa- tion of the period, demonstrating clearly its various phases and problems in the setting of the overall problems and developments of education throughout Australia. He has attempted, a little less happily perhaps, also to assess the impact of social and philosophical trends on the growth of Catholic educational ideas and practices. He endeavours, for example, to establish a relationship between liberalism and the development of educational ideas in the mid-nineteenth century, and demonstrates clearly that there was a belief current among a number of the clergy that there was an association between liberalism and secularism in education. Gladstone and Forster in England would have been somewhat nonplussed had it been suggested to them that they had joined hands with the secularists. To make this connection convincingly, therefore, for the Australian situation, one would need to indicate the factors which may have

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