The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education: Phenomenology of Sameness and Difference
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 disability using a phenomenological method. It examines how the external behaviors of children with special needs may look different from children without these needs but actually do share many similarities at the phenomenological level of lived experience. Themes of difference and sameness are employed for exploring the significances of phenomena such as "finger play," "eating as selffeeding," "smiling and turn-taking," "self-talk," and "don’t touch me." Throughout the narrating and interpreting of the case studies within the book, the author shows the tensional dialectic between individual and collective difference in order to understand what is required to help children with intellectual disability become themselves and form their personal self-identity.

The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education can be used in schools, seminars, and courses related to special education programs and in special needs curricula for children with developmental disabilities. It can also support childcare professionals who carry orthopedagogical responsibilities and who are concerned about the wellbeing of children and their families experiencing special needs. Additionally, this book is valuable to students, researchers, teachers, and others interested in a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to human science, professional practice issues, and qualitative research methods.

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The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education: Phenomenology of Sameness and Difference
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 disability using a phenomenological method. It examines how the external behaviors of children with special needs may look different from children without these needs but actually do share many similarities at the phenomenological level of lived experience. Themes of difference and sameness are employed for exploring the significances of phenomena such as "finger play," "eating as selffeeding," "smiling and turn-taking," "self-talk," and "don’t touch me." Throughout the narrating and interpreting of the case studies within the book, the author shows the tensional dialectic between individual and collective difference in order to understand what is required to help children with intellectual disability become themselves and form their personal self-identity.

The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education can be used in schools, seminars, and courses related to special education programs and in special needs curricula for children with developmental disabilities. It can also support childcare professionals who carry orthopedagogical responsibilities and who are concerned about the wellbeing of children and their families experiencing special needs. Additionally, this book is valuable to students, researchers, teachers, and others interested in a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to human science, professional practice issues, and qualitative research methods.

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The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education: Phenomenology of Sameness and Difference

The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education: Phenomenology of Sameness and Difference

by Chizuko Fujita
The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education: Phenomenology of Sameness and Difference

The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education: Phenomenology of Sameness and Difference

by Chizuko Fujita

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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 disability using a phenomenological method. It examines how the external behaviors of children with special needs may look different from children without these needs but actually do share many similarities at the phenomenological level of lived experience. Themes of difference and sameness are employed for exploring the significances of phenomena such as "finger play," "eating as selffeeding," "smiling and turn-taking," "self-talk," and "don’t touch me." Throughout the narrating and interpreting of the case studies within the book, the author shows the tensional dialectic between individual and collective difference in order to understand what is required to help children with intellectual disability become themselves and form their personal self-identity.

The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education can be used in schools, seminars, and courses related to special education programs and in special needs curricula for children with developmental disabilities. It can also support childcare professionals who carry orthopedagogical responsibilities and who are concerned about the wellbeing of children and their families experiencing special needs. Additionally, this book is valuable to students, researchers, teachers, and others interested in a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to human science, professional practice issues, and qualitative research methods.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780629585355
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/30/2020
Series: Phenomenology of Practice
Pages: 126
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments x

Introduction 1

Difference, Self, and Identity 1

1 Lives of Difference 4

Walking With Ted 4

Grasping Ted's Experience 5

Riga's Running 7

Deviancy of Behavior 9

Singularity and Being Intellectually Disabled 10

A Father 11

Sameness and Difference 12

2 What Is Special in Special Needs Education? 14

The Empirical Behavioral Perspective 14

Questions Concerning the Traditional Empirical Behavioral Perspective 15

The Social Perspective 19

Questions Concerning the Social Perspective 22

Possibility 25

3 How to Examine Special Needs Education? 28

Acknowledging the Active Involvement of a Researcher 29

Research Implications of the Pedagogic Stance 32

The Phenomenology of Story As a Mode of Researching 34

4 Finger Play 38

Matthew Plays Finger Play 38

Finger Play-Stereotyped? 40

Chris Plays Swinging 41

Finger Play and Swinging-Are They the Same? 42

Finger Play and Swinging-Are They Different? 44

5 Eating As Self-Feeding 48

Karen at a Lunch Table 48

Meal Time-For Training or… 50

Eating As Self-Feeding 51

Hating Together 52

Sameness and Difference 54

6 Smiling and Turn-Taking 57

Jeffry 57

Karen 59

Saying and Speaking 61

Repetition and Turn-Taking 62

Smiling 63

Anthony 65

Mike and Anthony 65

7 Self-Talk 68

The Tone of Self-Talk 70

The Contents of Self-Talk 70

The Gaze of Self-Talk 71

(Un)differentiation of Self and Others 72

Difference and Sameness 75

8 Don't Touch Me 77

Jeff 77

Danny 78

Karen 79

Sophie 79

Chris 80

Mark 80

Sameness and Difference 81

The Beginning 82

Expectation and Anticipation 83

Distance 85

9 Seeing and Listening 88

Anne, a Student Teacher 88

Sarah, a Staff Member 89

Bead Threading 90

Inconsistency 91

Meaningfulness and Relevancy 92

Difference and Sameness 94

10 Reflections 96

Sameness and Difference 96

Same Yet Different, Different Yet Same 97

Beyond Collective Difference 100

The Contextuality of Meaning 102

The Continuous Nature of Hermeneutic and Pedagogical Inquiry 103

References 107

Index 113

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