Product Description
Perspectives on Learning Difficulties – International Concerns and South African Realities
Authors: P Engelbrecht, SM Kriegler, MI Booysen
Format: Physical Hardcopy
This book is a collection of readings on a wide range of diverse approaches to learning difficulties. It is authored by experts in their particular areas of interest, including a number of internationally known academics.
Contents:
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PART 1: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY ISSUES Section 1: Beyond mainstreaming towards effective schools for all
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Chapter 1: An introduction to specialised education
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Chapter 2: Private trouble or public issue? School failure in sociopolitical context
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Chapter 3: Education for all in South Africa
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Chapter 4: Redistribution of special education resources in South Africa: Beyond mainstreaming towards effective schools for all
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Section 2: Intervention model and service delivery options
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Chapter 5: Early intervention: A global perspective
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Chapter 6: The issue of an alternative model: Specialised education within an integrated model of education support services in South Africa
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Chapter 7: A model for service delivery in rural areas
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Section 3: Classification, identification and assessment
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Chapter 8: Meaningful questions or meaningful answers: Worthwhile assessment in a changing world
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Chapter 9: Perspectives on psychological assessment in South African schools
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Chapter 10: Classification of learning difficulties
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Chapter 11: Notions of intelligence: Implications for identification, assessment and intervention
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Chapter 12: Assessing the causes of learning disability: A neuropsychological perspective
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PART 2: THEORY INTO PRACTICE Section 1: Thinking skills
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Chapter 13: Teaching thinking: Empowering teachers for cognitive education
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Chapter 14: Early cognitive enrichment – linked to language acquisition
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Chapter 15: Cross-cultural and interdimensional implications of Feuerstein’s construct of mediated learning experience
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Chapter 16: Cognitive control therapy for South African children with learning difficulties
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Chapter 17: A self-regulated learning perspective on pupils with learning difficulties
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Section 2: Motivation
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Chapter 18: Motivation and learning
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Chapter 19: Assessing the effects of attribution on learning motivation
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Chapter 20: Techniques, interventions and programmes: Helping high school pupils to study
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Section 3: Cultural/environmental disadvantage
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Chapter 21: Education and culture
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Chapter 22: Cooperative learning in the multicultural classroom
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Chapter 23: Life skills education: Empowering pupils for the future
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Chapter 24: A consideration of key factors contributing to underachievement in South African schools
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Chapter 25: Selected linguistic realities in South African schools: Problems and prospects
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Section 4: Reading/Literacy
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Chapter 26: Dyslexia versus illiteracy
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Chapter 27: The effect of orthographic depth on dyslexia: An analysis with specific reference to the South African linguistic situation
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Chapter 28: Multilingual assessment of children’s literacy
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Chapter 29: Remediation of developmental dyslexia
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Chapter 30: Enhancing the emerging literacy of young children: A research project
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Chapter 31: Creating literacy learning opportunities in the classroom
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Section 5: Mathematics Chapter 32: Learning and teaching problems in mathematics: A holistic approach
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