| Summary: | This study focuses on the mentally disabled pupil who receives
his education in a special school.
The mentally disabled pupil makes unique demands on the school.
To facilitate this type of education a particular curriculum and
suitable physical facilities have to be provided.
For the physical facilities to be up to educational standards,
the use of such facilities will have to be in accordance with
the aims of the special school. The educational use of said
physical facilities at a special school can be instrumental in
the eradication of the handicap a pupil at the special
school experiences.
It is the responsibility of the headmaster of such a school
to see to it that the physical facilities are used in such a
way so that the aims of the school are realize. To ensure
that the facilities are used optimally, the headmaster must
set a criteria which is unique to the special school.
The physical facilities of a special school for mentally
disabled pupils, being a part of reality, functions by
means of the structural moments of reality. The criteria
regarding the use of the physical facilities at a special school
is formulated in terms of the modalities of reality in which
the school functions. === Skripsie (MEd)--PU vir CHO, 1988
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