School Problems or Individual Shortcomings? A Study of Individual Educational Plans in Sweden

Autor/inn/en	Isaksson, Joakim; Lindqvist, Rafael; Bergstrom, Erik
Titel	School Problems or Individual Shortcomings? A Study of Individual Educational Plans in Sweden
Quelle	In: European Journal of Special Needs Education, 22 (2007) 1, S.75-91 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-6257
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Individual Characteristics; Grade 3; Students; Models; Educational Needs; Special Education; Content Analysis; Disabilities; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Student; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Analogiemodell; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Inhaltsanalyse; Handicap; Behinderung; Schweden
Abstract	In 1995 it became mandatory to establish individual educational plans (IEPs) for children with special educational needs in the Swedish compulsory school. On the basis of the pupils' needs, such a plan should contain information about the pupils' school situation and performance, the class, teaching etc. The aim of this article was to study how special educational needs are defined and described and what support measures the school is suggesting, using IEPs from a sample of Swedish compulsory schools. Our study is based on an analysis of IEPs for pupils with special educational needs in the nine-year compulsory school in a municipality in northern Sweden. A strategic selection of three compulsory schools was made and we restricted the study to grades 3, 6 and 9. The method used to analyse the IEPs was content analysis. Using different theories within the field of special education and disability studies, we have tried to discern to what extent the problems described, and the proposed measures (intervention), are related to predetermined theoretical models of disability and special needs education. Our analysis indicates that difficulties are predominantly attributed to the pupils' shortcomings and individual characteristics, and the same holds for the recommended measures. Another interesting finding is that a number of the plans were established without involving the parents, and many of them did not even know that their child had an IEP. Finally, we discuss our findings in relation to different research traditions within the field of special education. (Contains 1 table, 1 figure and 1 note.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10