Building Cultural Reciprocity with Families: Case Studies in Special Education

ISBN-13: 9781557663771 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 227 str.

Beth Harry; Maya Kalyanpur; Monimalika Day

Opis

This book's case studies take readers into the lives of eight families to show how using cultural reciprocity to build a framework for relationships helps strengthen interactions between professionals and parents or caregivers. Through the case studies, educators will see that special education has a culture all its own and will come to achieve a better understanding of this culture. This knowledge will help them to facilitate conversations with families in order to identify the cultural values and beliefs that form the families' goals for their children. They will then be more prepared to meet the needs of every student while respecting individual beliefs, even when these beliefs conflict with the traditions of special education.