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Culture in Special Education: Building Reciprocal Family-Professional Relationships » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Maya Kalyanpur, Beth Harry, Beth Harry
ISBN-13: 9781557663764, ISBN-10: 1557663769
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brookes, Paul H. Publishing Company
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Maya Kalyanpur

Book Synopsis

Kalyanpur (reading, special education, and technology, Towson U.) and Harry (teaching and learning, U. of Miami) address the issues of how the ideals of U.S. macroculture are represented in the field of special education and the resulting implications for cross-cultural communication. They argue that professional knowledge is largely acquired by an implicit process that needs to made explicit and conscious if school personnel are to become effective collaborators in a multi-cultural society. They put forth a "posture of cultural reciprocity" that they contend will facilitate processes of cultural understanding. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of Contents

About the Authors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1Cultural Underpinnings of Special Education1
2Legal and Epistemological Underpinnings of the Construction of Disability15
3The Role of Professional Expertise and Language in the Treatment of Disability47
4Professionals' Perspectives on Parenting Styles77
5The Posture of Cultural Reciprocity113
References133
Index151

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