The Pmld Ambiguity: Articulating the Life-Worlds of Children with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities

ISBN-13: 9780367328498 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 260 str.

Ben Simmons; Debbie Watson

Opis

This book challenges the very idea of "profound and multiple learning disabilities" (PMLD) itself, and what constitutes appropriate educational provision for children described as having PMLD. It considers the role of ambiguity in articulating the life-worlds of children with PMLD.

Spis treści

Preface -- Exploring “PMLD” -- Behaviourism -- Cognitivism -- Phenomenology -- Interpreting Sam: the search for a sensitive methodology -- Sam’s life-worlds: subjectivities and intersubjectivities -- Concluding discussion: negotiating ambiguity as a means to the life-world

O autorze

Simmons, Ben