The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Difference, Self, and Identity
1 Lives of Difference
	Walking With Ted
	Grasping Ted’s Experience
	Rhea’s Running
	Deviancy of Behavior
	Singularity and Being Intellectually Disabled
	A Father
	Sameness and Difference
2 What Is Special in Special Needs Education?
	The Empirical Behavioral Perspective
		Questions Concerning the Traditional Empirical Behavioral Perspective
	The Social Perspective
		Questions Concerning the Social Perspective
	Possibility
3 How to Examine Special Needs Education?
	Acknowledging the Active Involvement of a Researcher
	Research Implications of the Pedagogic Stance
	The Phenomenology of Story As a Mode of Researching
4 Finger Play
	Matthew Plays Finger Play
		Finger Play—Stereotyped?
	Chris Plays Swinging
		Finger Play and Swinging—Are They the Same?
		Finger Play and Swinging—Are They Different?
5 Eating As Self-Feeding
	Karen at a Lunch Table
	Meal Time—For Training or . . .
	Eating As Self-Feeding
	Eating Together
	Sameness and Difference
6 Smiling and Turn-Taking
	Jeffry
	Karen
		Saying and Speaking
		Repetition and Turn-Taking
		Smiling
	Anthony
	Mike and Anthony
7 Self-Talk
	The Tone of Self-Talk
	The Contents of Self-Talk
	The Gaze of Self-Talk
	(Un)differentiation of Self and Others
	Difference and Sameness
8 Don’t Touch Me
	Jeff
	Danny
	Karen
	Sophie
	Chris
	Mark
	Sameness and Difference
		The Beginning
		Expectation and Anticipation
		Distance
9 Seeing and Listening
	Anne, a Student Teacher
	Sarah, a Staff Member
	Bead Threading
	Inconsistency
	Meaningfulness and Relevancy
	Difference and Sameness
10 Reflections
	Sameness and Difference
	Same Yet Different, Different Yet Same
	Beyond Collective Difference
	The Contextuality of Meaning
	The Continuous Nature of Hermeneutic and Pedagogical Inquiry
References
Index