Teaching Children With Severe Learning Difficulties - A Radical Reappraisal

First published in 1986. The teaching of children with severe learning difficulties had received little coherent critical analysis. Long-held assumptions and implicit beliefs were embedded in curriculum content and teaching methodology, thus creating and maintaining handicapping conditions. This book raises questions about underlying value judgments relating to the status and rights afforded to children with severe learning difficulties and the implications for education and teaching. Possibilities for change are discussed in relation to the curriculum, the content of the educational programme and the teacher-pupil relationship.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Saga of Curriculum Innovation 2. Learning to be Independent? 3. Teaching – Relations and Processes of Imposition 4. Breaking the Mould 5. A New Deal?; Bibliography; General Index; Author Index

About the author

Sue Wood, Barbara Shears

Summary

First published in 1986. This book raises questions about underlying value judgments relating to the status and rights afforded to children with severe learning difficulties and the implications for education and teaching.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Shears, Shears Barbara, Sue Wood, Sue Shears Wood, Wood Sue
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781138596009
• ISBN: 978-1-138-59600-9
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Special Educational Needs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Philosophy & theory of education, Teaching of students with learning difficulties, Philosophy and theory of education