EXPERIENCING SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS N DISABILITY (UK Higher Education Humanities & Social Sciences Education)

EXPERIENCING SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS N DISABILITY (UK Higher Education Humanities & Social Sciences Education) image
ISBN-10:

0335262465

ISBN-13:

9780335262465

Edition: UK ed.
Released: May 01, 2017
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
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Description:

Covering a wide range of special educational needs and disabilities this book examines the perspectives of teachers, teaching assistants, children and parents with a focus on specific educational aspects, such as curriculum and pedagogy. Referencing recent policy changes in the special needs and inclusive education context, the book offers an introduction to the special needs and inclusive education field for teachers, SEN Coordinators and other allied professionals (e.g. speech and communication therapists, educational psychologists) as well as parents and policy makers, by: * Examining the lived experience of parents, teachers and children/young people with special educational needs/ disability in education * Illustrating some of their experienced tensions and how they deal with them * Exploring the significance of these experiences for policy and practice The book features 12 engaging case studies that are based on in-depth interviews with parents, teachers or teaching assistants and children or young people, exploring their experiences as regards their education. These accounts emphatically highlight positive models of practice as well as negative practices to avoid. In this way the book contributes to the professional learning of teachers and allied professionals.












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