Special Education category: 3739 books
Research in Deaf Education
Contexts, Challenges, and Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Edited by Stephanie W. Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio, Research in Deaf Education: Contexts, Challenges, and Considerations is a showcase of insight and experience from a seasoned group of researchers across the field of deaf education. Research in Deaf Education begins with foundational chapters...
A Teacher's Guide to Adapted Physical Education
Including Students With Disabilities in Sports and Recreation, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A healthy, active lifestyle for all students: That's the promise of physical education, and the goal of this comprehensive textbook. Now in a thoroughly updated fourth edition, this text prepares current and future PE teachers to lead welcoming, inclusive classes where every student participates,...
Enacting Change from Within
Disability Studies Meets Teaching and Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Disability Studies in Education (DSE) provides a useful and compelling framework for re-envisioning the possibility of education for all students. However, the philosophies of Disability Studies (DS) can be seen as contradictory to many mainstream values and practices in K-12 education. In an ever-shifting...
Online Education: Today’s Practical Approach To Learning
An Informational Guide On The Benefits Of Online Education And Getting An Educational Degree Or Training Via The Ease And Convenience Of The Internet
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Online education is a fantastic concept that has allowed the advent of the Internet to take education to the masses. This is fantastic in the fact that people who never expected to receive a degree can now get one regardless of social background, individual circumstance and income. The educational...
Preparing Teachers for Inclusive Education
Case Pedagogies and Curricula for Teacher Educators
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
This book--a companion volume to Inclusive Education: A Casebook and Readings for Prospective and Practicing Teachers--is designed to assist instructors in using Inclusive Education as a text for preservice or in-service teacher education courses.
Part I (Chapters 1-5) of Preparing Teachers...
Every Person Is a Philosopher
Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginalized for reasons of race, gender, class, and caste. Hal detested the carelessness and neglect his students endured and set about building spaces of respect...
Beyond Equality in the American Classroom
The Case for Inclusive Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Beyond Equality in the American Classroom: The Case for Inclusive Education addresses the basis of inclusive education for students with exceptionalities from the perspective of social justice and scholarship-activism. Drawing on historical, legislative, and philosophical references, this book builds...
Change and Promise
Bilingual Deaf Education and Deaf Culture in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Within the past few decades, there has been great progress in deaf education in Latin America and growth in the empowerment of their Deaf communities. However, there is little awareness outside that region of these successes. For the first time, this book provides access, in English, to scholarly...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
An Introduction for the Teaching Profession
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: An Introduction for the Teaching Profession prepares students for the classroom and community environments they will encounter when teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in urban, rural and remote schools at early childhood, primary...
by James Ottavio Castagnera
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The Handbook for Student Law for Higher Education Administrators, Third Edition is a practical tool, intended for administrators dealing with students in higher education, focusing principally on four-year institutions. Addressing the ever-evolving relationship between higher education and the law,...
Formal Education: A Catalyst to Nation Building
A Case Study of Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The smallest and most remote villages in the developing countries are affected by the rapid and seemingly irresistible trend towards globalization. The limitless availability of information however necessitates education to stand out as the key factor for human and national development. But which...
by Mithu Alur, Michael Bach
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Despite national and international commitments to Education for All, and the Millennium Development Goals to assure universal primary education by 2015, over 90% of children with disabilities remain excluded from regular education in countries of the south. This book describes a three decade-long...
by Luigi Iannacci
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Reconceptualizing Disability in Education provides an essential critical exploration of problematic discourses, practices, and pedagogies that inform how disability is presently understood and responded to within the field of education. Luigi Iannacci interrogates and destabilizes ableist grand narratives...
Education Pack "all different - all equal"
Ideas, resources, methods and activities for non-formal intercultural education with young people and adults
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
It is easy to say "I have no prejudices", "I'm not racist, so it has nothing to do with me", "I didn't invite those refugees". It is hard to say "I may not be to blame for what happened in the past but I want to take responsibility for making sure it doesn't continue in the future". The Education Pack...