by Beverly Rainforth, Jennifer York, Cathy Macdonald (1992)
Like the highly acclaimed first edition, the second edition offers suggestions for turning professional differences in training and philosophy into assets, rather than barriers. Filled with updates and revisions, it offers in-depth guidance on assessment, curriculum development, and instruction for students with severe disabilities. Throughout the book, detailed case studies illustrate how to integrate therapy into educational programming and create a working team framework in daily collaborative efforts. Easy-to-follow processes for identifying team members, scheduling, developing IEPs, co-teaching, conducting team meetings, assuming multiple roles, addressing issues as a group, making decisions by consensus, resolving professional differences, and communicating with parents are included. Equally useful as a training text and as a professional development tool, this resource helps both students and professionals update their knowledge, refine their skills and increase their effectiveness.
M.C. Felderhof
Religious education / Daniel W. Hardy -- A response to Daniel W. Hardy / Anza A. Lema -- On acknowledging religious pluralism in education / Johannes Lähnemann -- Concluding remarks / Stewart Sutherland.
Judith Suissa
Although there have been a few historical accounts of the anarchist school movement, there has been no systematic work on the philosophical underpinnings of anarchist educational ideas - until now. *Anarchism and Education* offers a philosophical account of the neglected tradition of anarchist thought on education. Although few anarchist thinkers wrote systematically on education, this analysis is based largely on a reconstruction of the educational thought of anarchist thinkers gleaned from their various ethical, philosophical and popular writings. Primarily drawing on the work of the nineteenth century anarchist theorists such as Bakunin, Kropotkin and Proudhon, the book also covers twentieth century anarchist thinkers such as Noam Chomsky, Paul Goodman, Daniel Guerin and Colin Ward. This original work will interest philosophers of education and educationalist thinkers as well as those with a general interest in anarchism. (Source: Routledge
Donna M. Gollnick, Philip C. Chinn
An overall goal of multicultural education is to help all students develop their potential for academic, social, and vocational success ... This text is designed to examine ... group memberships and ways in which the educator can develop educational programs to meet the needs of those groups and the nation.-Pref.
Henry A. Giroux
"For thirty years Henry Giroux has been theorizing pedagogy as a political, moral, and cultural practice, drawing upon critical discourses that extend from John Dewey and Zygmunt Bauman to Paulo Freire. This impassioned book starts with the crucial role of pedagogy in schools before extending the notion to the educational force of the wider culture. Giroux focuses on five crucial elements associated with critical pedagogy. First, he presents an overview of the term as it applies to schooling and to larger cultural spheres. Second, he analyzes the increasingly empirical orientation of teaching, focusing on the culture of positivism. Section Three examines some of the major economic, social, and political forces undermining the promise of democratic schooling in both public and higher education. Giroux then outlines increasing attempts by both right wing and liberal interests to reduce schooling to training and students merely to customers. Finally, the book focuses on the legacy of Paulo Freire and issues a fundamental challenge to educators, public intellectuals, and others who believe in the promise of a radical democracy."--Pub. desc.