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This book offers theoretical and practical discussion on the inclusion of students with disabilities and learning impairments within the learning environments and beyond. It explores how social relations and social activities can support the personal and social transitions of children, young people and adults in need of specialized support. Written by academics based in Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK, the contributors take a cultural-historical and dialectical approach as a starting point for special pedagogy. This approach enables special pedagogy to rise above biological-essentialist, environmental-social-training and purely sociological approaches and to focusing on development as a psychological as well as a social phenomenon. The chapters cover a range topics including deaf education, primary and secondary disabilities, play, mediation, incarcerated youth and mental illness. The contributors draw heavily on psychologist Lev Vygotsky's work and his notion of the zone of proximal development.
This book offers theoretical and practical discussion on the inclusion of students with disabilities and learning impairments within the learning environments and beyond. It explores how social relations and social activities can support the personal and social transitions of children, young peop...
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Louise Bøttcher is Associate Professor of Neuropsychology at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Charlotte Mathiassen is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Educational Psychology at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Charlotte Mathiassen is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Educational Psychology at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Louise Bøttcher is Associate Professor of Neuropsychology at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Charlotte Mathiassen is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Educational Psychology at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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