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Exploring Disability in Singapore
A Personal Learning Journey
Levan Lim, Thana Thaver and Roger Slee
ISBN 9780071264556 • MHID 0071264558 • 2008 • Softcover • 124pp
Teachers are encountering more students with special needs or disabilities
within mainstream schools in Singapore. The onus is on teacher education
to adequately prepare teachers to meet the challenges of diverse student
needs and abilities. Besides learning the skills and strategies to include
students with special needs within mainstream classrooms, it is also
important for teachers to understand their own experience of disability that
is situated within life in Singapore.
Exploring Disability in Singapore invites teachers to explore their own
positioning in relation to the experience of disability within their social
contexts. Set against the re-envisioning of Singapore as an inclusive society,
this text is designed to guide teachers on a personal learning journey to
“de-construct” or gain a critical awareness of how self and society have
arrived at particular positions in relation to special needs. The perspectives
and insights of teachers who have successfully included students with
special needs are shared in this text to help teachers “re-construct” personal
pedagogies for inclusivity and to illustrate how these are interconnected
with the use of appropriate approaches and strategies. Also included are the
voices of pre-service teachers to encourage and help fellow sojourners to
appreciate, affirm and respect their own unique learning journeys.