1st Edition

The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education Phenomenology of Sameness and Difference

By Chizuko Fujita Copyright 2021
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education: Phenomenology of Sameness and Difference outlines how to understand the inner and behavioral lives of children with intellectual disability through the psychology and phenomenology of "stories" derived from the experiences of living with these children. The book inquires into the meaning of the experiences of children with intellectual developmental... Read more

1 Lives of Difference 2 What is Special in Special Needs Education 3 How to Examine Special Needs Education 4 Finger Play 5 Eating as Self-Feeding 6 Smiling and Turn-Taking 7 Self-Talk 8 Don’t Touch Me 9 Seeing and Listening 10 Reflections

Biography

Chizuko Fujita, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Graduate School of Human Science, Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University, a private women’s university in Satsuma-sendai, Kagoshima, Japan. She also works as a certified clinical psychologist at the clinical center attached to the graduate school and as a school counselor to high schools in the Kagoshima prefecture.