Multicultural Education for Learners with Special Needs in the Twenty-First Century (Contemporary Perspectives in Special Education)

Obiakor, Festus E.

ISBN 10: 1623965802 / ISBN 13: 9781623965808

Published by Information Age Publishing, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Multicultural Education for Learners with Special Needs in the Twenty-First Century (Contemporary Perspectives in Special Education)
• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1623965802
• ISBN 13: 9781623965808
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Multicultural Education for Learners with Special Needs in the Twenty-First Century provides general and special educators innovative information that address the road blocks to effective practice such that diverse learners will be appropriately; identified, assessed, categorized, placed and instructed. The book provides those who instruct diverse learners comprehensive, creative and best practice chapters by scholars in the area of multicultural education.

The book is an important addition to the education of multicultural learners with special needs as it provides much needed direction for the effective instructional practices for today’s diverse students. The book can be used as current best practices for special and general educators as well as school administrators.

About the Author

Festus E. Obiakor, Ph.D., is Department Head and Professor, Early Childhood and Special Education, Dewar College of Education and Human Services, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia. A teacher, scholar, and consultant, he has served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at a variety of universities. He is the author of more than 150 publications, including books, articles, and commentaries; and he has presented papers at many national and international conferences. He serves on the editorial boards of reputable nationally and internationally refereed journals, including Multicultural Learning and Teaching (MLT) in which he serves as co-executive Editor. Obiakor is a leader who has been involved in many landmark scholarly works in the fields of general and special education, with particular focus on African American and other culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners and he continues to prescribe multidimensional methods of assessment, teaching, and intervention for these individuals. Based on this premise, he created the Comprehensive Support Model (CSM), an intervention model that values the collaborative, consultative, and cooperative energies of students, families, teachers/service providers, communities, and government agencies.