The Study On The Fairness Issues Of Special Education In Compulsory Education

Educational fairness is the extension of social fairness value in education field. It is also the basis of realizing social fairness construction and harmonious society. Therefore, it has always been concerned as a hotspot issue that has became both aim and guidance of people's relentless pursuit. Special education, which is an important part of education, it's fairness has a vital effect on the realization of educational fairness. Fairness issues came out of the special education cause in China, though it has made a great progress. The disabled students'right of receiving equal education still can't be guaranteed. However, the emergence of inclusive education provides a powerful theoretical framework for special education towards a better way to fairness.The concept of inclusive education was first introduced at World Conference on Special Needs Education in 1994. It is a new challenge to general education for it advocates to accepting all kinds of students, opposing discrimination and exclusion in any form, promoting active participation, and emphasizing on team work to satisfy different needs. It provided a new perspective to realize educational fairness for the disabled children. In order to find the root of those problems and propose problem-solving strategies,the paper aims to examine the fairness problems during the development process of special education in compulsory education from the perspective of inclusive education. This paper is divided into four parts: part one is about the present states of educational fairness on compulsory education stage in China and the successes achieved. Fairness problems in special education are put forward with the analysis of causes in the second part. Next part is focusing on the theory of inclusive education. The detailed solutions to fairness problems of special education in compulsory education stage are proposed under inclusive education theory in part four.