Nurturing the wellbeing of students in difficulty The legacy of Paul Cooper Carmel Cefai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cefai, Carmel

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

1

Place of Publication:

Peter Lang Inc. 2024

Summary:

«This book is an opportunity to pay tribute to Professor Paul Cooper, whose long career in the field of young people with emotional and behavioral difficulties has made it possible to greatly influence the understanding of the difficulties of these children and the interventions that are implemented to them. I have never seen, in the same book, such a diverse collection of topics, but which nevertheless offers a very coherent and relevant whole.» (Caroline Couture, Tenured Professor, Department of Psychoeducation and Social Work, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) «The originality of this book lies in bringing together a set of mature reflections by international authors on the understanding of the nature of SEBD and the challenges of equitable inclusive education in relation to students with SEBD.» (Paul Bartolo, Department of Psychology, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta) Paul Cooper dedicated his academic life researching and writing to advance theory and practice to nurture and enhance the wellbeing of marginalised and disadvantaged children, at a time when such children were not only voiceless and disenfranchised but frequently at the receiving end of punitive and exclusionary practices. In this book various colleagues share their work and insights into how Paul Cooper's pioneering work was instrumental in advancing the field they were working on and inspired them to further extend and develop the area themselves through their research and publications. Social, emotional and behaviour difficulties, the perspectives of students, nurture groups, the biopsychosocial perspective to special educational needs and disability, the wellbeing of students, especially those most marginalised, these have become keywords endemically attached to Paul Cooper.

Contents:

HalfTitle Figures Tables part i Introducing Paul Cooper 1 Introduction 2 A Brief and Incomplete Account of Some Early Adventures in Education part ii Diversity and Inclusion 3 Identity as Difference: On Distinctiveness, Cool and Inclusion 4 The Biopsychosocial Model and What It Means for Understanding Inclusion in Education 5 Reframing Cooper's Emotional-Relational, Commodification and Biopsychosocial Concerns as a Spatial Turn towards Concentric Systems of Inclusion 6 Exploring Pre-service Special Education Teachers' Self-Perceptions in Addressing Students' Academic, Social, and Emotional Needs 7 The Curriculum Reforms of Special Education in the Context of Inclusive Education in China part iii Nurture Groups 8 From Nurture Groups to Nurturing Cities: The Impact of Evidence-Based Research 9 Returning from Educational Exile: The School of Barbiana and Emancipatory Nurture Groups as Projects of Hope and Possibility 10 Developmental Effects on the Daughters of Absent Fathers: The Need for Nurture part iv Engaging Students with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties 11 Overcoming Disengagement of Students through an Arts-Based Programme 12 Looking the Wrong Way 13 From Students 'without voices' to Students with ... 'low voices' 14 Exploring the Experiences of Mothers of Children with ADHD in the Caribbean

ISBN:

9781803743448

1803743441