Special Education Practices: Personal Narratives of African American Scholars, Educators & Related Professionals

Author:   Festus E Obiakor, Ph.D.
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
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9781620812044


Pages:   169
Publication Date:   12 November 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Special Education Practices: Personal Narratives of African American Scholars, Educators & Related Professionals


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Special education is a vibrant, complex, and controversial field that continues to garner widespread attention from policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and educators. It is a field whose primary goal is to provide an appropriate education for students with special needs, a disproportionate number of whom are from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds. In this book the authors bring together critical perspectives and historical viewpoints on special education by a group of distinguished and well-recognised African American scholars, educators, and related professionals. These authors raise important questions, challenge assumptions about traditions and conventions in special education, and provide insights into how to reach and teach under-served African American children and youth in special education.

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Author:   Festus E Obiakor, Ph.D.
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Weight:   0.488kg
ISBN:  

9781620812044


ISBN 10:   1620812045
Pages:   169
Publication Date:   12 November 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Foreword; Preface; Special education contexts, challenges, & prospects in the United States: my voice; How predominantly white universities abet the malfunction of special education services for African American students; Getting in & staying in: a look into the black hole of special education; Valuing essential human capital for African American youth with special needs: my story; The ""goodness"" of special education & related barriers: an educators perspective; All children are special: Response-to-intervention for African American students; Connecting with African American Males: My experiences as a special education teacher(Christopher D. Yawn); Personal reflections: Significance of Mentors for African American women in the special education field; Introspective voice & vision of an African American teacher educator in special (adapted) physical education; Gifted & talented education: is special education appropriate?; Achieving educational equity for African American students with & without exceptionalities; From deficit to divergence: refocusing special education for African Americans labelled as having emotional & behavioural problems; The reality of racism: recounting memories of schooling as an African American student with gifts & talents; Shining the light on our youth with special needs; From numbers to letters: surviving special education despite the Odds; Index."

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Festus E Obiakor, Ph.D., is Professor, Early Childhood and Special Education, Dewar College of Education and Human Services, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia. A teacher, scholar, and consultant, he has served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at a variety of universities. He is the author of more than 150 publications, including books, articles, and commentaries; and he has presented papers at many national and international conferences. He serves on the editorial boards of reputable nationally and internationally refereed journals, including Multicultural Learning and Teaching (MLT) in which he serves as Executive Editor. Dr. Obiakor is a leader who has been involved in many landmark scholarly works in the fields of general and special education, with particular focus on African American and other culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners and he continues to prescribe multidimensional methods of assessment, teaching, and intervention for these individuals. Based on this premise, Dr. Obiakor created the Comprehensive Support Model (CSM), an intervention model that values the collaborative, consultative, and cooperative energies of students, families, teachers/service providers, communities, and government agencies.

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