Teaching Deaf Learners - Psychological and Developmental Foundations (Hardcover, New)

Teaching Deaf Learners: Psychological and Developmental Foundations explores how deaf students (children and adolescents) learn and the conditions that support their reaching their full cognitive potential - or not. Beginning with an introduction to teaching and learning of both deaf and hearing students, Knoors and Marschark take an ecological approach to deaf education, emphasizing the need to take into account characteristics of learners and of the educational context. Building on the evidence base with respect to developmental and psychological factors in teaching on learning, they describe characteristics of deaf learners which indicate that teaching deaf learners is not, or should not, be the same as teaching hearing learners. In this volume, Knoors and Marschark will explore factors that influence the teaching of deaf learners, including their language proficiencies, literacy and numeracy skills, cognitive abilities, and social-emotional factors. These issues are addressed in separate chapters, with a focus on the importance to all of them of communication and language. Separate chapters are devoted to the promise of multimedia enhanced education and the possible influences of contextual aspects of the classroom and the school on the learning of deaf students. The book concludes by pointing out the importance of appropriate education of teachers of deaf learners given the increasing diversity of those students and the contexts in which they are educated. It bridges the gap between research and practice in teaching, and outlines ways to improve teacher education.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Perspectives on Deafness
Release date:	2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Harry Knoors (Director, Knowledge & Innovation, Royal Dutch Kentalis; Professor of Deaf Education) • Marc Marschark (Professor and Director)
Dimensions:	238 x 162 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-979202-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of specific groups > Teaching of those with special educational needs > Teaching of hearing-impaired persons
LSN:	0-19-979202-X
Barcode:	9780199792023

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