Scot Danforth, Terry Jo Smith

Broschiertes Buch

Engaging Troubling Students

A Constructivist Approach

Beschreibung

This book is designed for both special and general teachers faced with managing classrooms with emotionally and behaviourally troubled students. It emphasizes a growing trend in special education by taking a constructivist approach to classroom management and moving away from the traditional behavioural approach. The book begins with a very comprehensive introduction both behavioural practice and EBD students, and quickly moves to a critical definition of constructivsim

Autor

Dr. Scot Danforth is well-known leader in the growing area of Disability Studies in Education, a multidisciplinary field of educational research exploring disabilities as sociopolitical constructions and construing the disabled community as an oppressed minority group. He is co-founder of the Disability Studies in Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (http://ced.ncsu.edu/2/dse/). His research has explored the roles of professional and layperson discourses in the social and political construction of disability. Additionally, his publications have analyzed the historical and philosophical development of the field of special education. He has written a wide range of books and articles in the areas of special education teacher preparation, working with students with social and emotional difficulties, and classroom management. He is Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Division of Teaching of Learning, University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Corwin
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 637g
• ISBN-13: 9781412904483
• ISBN-10: 141290448X
• Artikelnr.: 21859891