New Methods of Special Education
by
Satu Uusiautti (Volume editor) 
Kaarina Määttä (Volume editor)
Kaarina Määttä (Volume editor)
©2018
Edited Collection
278 Pages
Summary
This book introduces research and solutions tested in schools with students with intellectual disabilities, socio-emotional difficulties, and extreme illnesses. It also provides extremely talented students’ opinions on best teaching practices. In addition to students, the authors aim to bring out voices of their parents, teachers, and other people supporting them. The book serves people working with questions of special education: practitioners, researchers, and teachers and students in the field of special education worldwide. The authors present successful study processes which are secured by caring interaction, flexible, and student-centered teaching and multi-professional collaboration. The elements of caring education are the guiding principles of new special education.
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Forewords
- 1. Introduction
- Challenges of Special Education (Kaarina Määttä / Tanja Äärelä / Satu Uusiautti)
- 2. Boosting Belief in Learning among Students with Intellectual Disabilities and Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Children with ASD as Members of Social Learning Environments (Seija Kangas / Satu Uusiautti / Kaarina Määttä)
- Viewpoints to Facilitated Communication Methods among People with Autism (Anna-Kaisa Sipilä / Kaarina Määttä)
- A Good Study Path according to Young Adults with Intellectual Disability (Anneli Hermanoff / Kaarina Määttä / Satu Uusiautti)
- 3. Encouraging Children with Socio-emotional Difficulties
- Development of Emotional Coping among Elementary Education Students (Eeva-Liisa Peltokorpi / Kaarina Määttä / Satu Uusiautti)
- How to Raise a Child with a Challenging Temperament? (Mirja Heikkala / Satu Uusiautti / Kaarina Määttä)
- Toward the Pedagogy of Preventing Social Exclusion (Tanja Äärelä / Satu Uusiautti / Kaarina Määttä)
- 4. Providing Opportunities to Students with Extreme Illnesses
- Ex-anorectics’ Experiences of Finding their Appetite for Life (Marika Savukoski / Satu Uusiautti / Kaarina Määttä)
- Going to School with Narcolepsy (Satu Karjalainen / Anna-Maria Nyrhilä / Kaarina Määttä / Satu Uusiautti)
- 5. New Ways of Collaboration as the Strength of Special Education
- Teachers’ Perceptions of the Possibilities of Inclusion (Suvi Lakkala / Satu Uusiautti / Kaarina Määttä)
- Opportunities for Sustainable Education in the Special Education Classroom (Tomi Kankainen / Kaarina Määttä / Satu Uusiautti)
- Strength-based Teaching as the Means to Approach the Most Talented Students (Mari Salmela / Satu Uusiautti / Kaarina Määttä)
- 6. Conclusion
- The Core of Special Education (Satu Uusiautti / Kaarina Määttä)
- Sources
Details
- Pages
- 278
- Publication Year
- 2018
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631744208
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631745144
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631745151
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9783631745168
- DOI
- 10.3726/b13246
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2018 (September)
- Keywords
- students with special needs inclusion caring education strength-based teaching learning difficulties
- Published
- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2018, 278 p., 1 b/w ill., 7 b/w tab.
- Product Safety
- Peter Lang Group AG
Biographical notes
Satu Uusiautti (Volume editor)
Kaarina Määttä (Volume editor)
Satu Uusiautti is a Professor of Education at the University of Lapland, Finland. Kaarina Määttä is a Professor of Educational Psychology and Vice-Rector of the University of Lapland, Finland.
