Building Belonging and Resilience

Journal of Special Education Preparation · 2026-03-18

Sufficient and meaningful clinical practice is a critical factor in special education teacher retention, yet it often occurs late in the credential programs and varies in quality. This article presents an early practicum model for early childhood special education (ECSE) candidates that introduces an earlier, structured fieldwork experience embedded within the coursework. The Relationship-Based Skill Building Model comprises six key components: reflective readings and assignments, professional development, on-site supervision and coaching, peer support and teaming, small- and large-group discussions, and individual feedback. The practicum model emphasizes relationship-based, culturally responsive strategies and builds on candidates’ social-emotional competence, fostering peer relationships that may become protective factors contributing to retention in the field. The model, which can be generalized across content areas, offers a developmental approach to workforce preparation that aims not only to meet teacher competencies but also to promote long-term persistence and resilience in the field of special education.

10 Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations Motion, Madness, and Incongruent Planes in History

2024-03-28

Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations

2024-03-05

Nancy Rose Hunt, “Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations: Motion, Madness, and Incongruent Planes in History”: Motion and immobility may converge around transport conveyances in states and textures of mind and madness. This chapter juxtaposes 1950s Gold Coast lorries and commercial shrines with Guinea slave ships of the 1790s: thus, postwar melancholic Akan women and disintegrating slaves of the late eighteenth century. The mammy wagons and shrines of the first pry open a modern, emergent West African, where anthropologist Margaret Field encountered depressed women enmeshed in dreams, fast lorries, and vulnerability. A slow-moving slave ship generated suicide, dejected states of mind and deliria, and surgeons’ copious commentaries. Using Paul Virilio’s words about speed-as-milieu, the chapter disorders sequential time while investigating these incongruent milieus. Historians do not necessarily require patient “voices,” it is suggested, since microscopic cases yield plenty about diagnostic codes, textures to psychopathologies, racist formations, and experiences of cruelty, derangement, anguish, yet also of reverie.

Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations

2024-03-08

Field Experiences in Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education (EI/ECSE): Preparing Teachers for Success in Diverse Early Education Settings

Journal of Special Education Preparation · 2024-05-01 · 4 citations

Field experiences provide opportunities for early childhood and early childhood special education (EC/ECSE) educators to implement effective practices in learning settings, and are, therefore, a vital part of EC/ECSE teacher preparation. In this article, we describe field placement models from four universities in the United States: The Bridge Project, Getting Started Early, Peer Coaching to Increase Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions, and University Supervisors Coaching Teacher Candidates: Supporting Young Bi/Multilingual Children with Disabilities. Although there is variety in the settings and effective practices supported through these field placements, performance feedback and collaboration are clear themes across models.

Madness, the Psychopolitical, and the Vernacular

2024-03-05

Nancy Rose Hunt, “Madness, the Psychopolitical, and the Vernacular: Rethinking Psychiatric Histories”: The introduction offers an innovative, critical historiographical overview of the field of psychiatric and madness scholarship for Africa, with a comprehensive historical overview of evidence and stories about madness in African history and scholarly studies, and attention to category work, sensibilities, and three concepts: madness, the psychopolitical, and the vernacular. The psychopolitical is explored as a way to broach dictators’ mental states, convergences, and social moods or atmosopheres. The virtues of the term vernacular is explored as an alternative to the traditional, a counterpoint to the psychiatric, and in relation to being attentive to and mining residual forms and vocabularies. Drawing on Frantz Fanon, the chapter uses Michel Foucault’s take on “vivacity” and early modern madness to interpret madness capaciously within African histories of all eras. The chapter frames the entire book, and is followed immediately by a descriptive review of each chapter.

INTRODUCTION

2024-03-08

Violence, intimacy and veins of madness in a fraught border city

Africa · 2024-02-01 · 1 citations

Abstract This article considers the intimate, the violent and the psychopathological in Bukavu, an eastern Congolese border city known for rape and war. A phenomenological focus pries open tensions in this ruinous, neoliberal ‘boom town’, frictions related to mental health, patterns of resort, and derangement. Ethnographic portraits from co-produced fieldnotes reveal family and street dynamics and a few adaptive, public figures of madness. Bukavu knows unhinged, delirious, psychotic people and PTSD infrastructures in this ‘trauma zone’. Patterns of psychosis go with ‘vivacity’, a Foucauldian word. The non-scientific term madness points to politics and the everyday, with many mad persons roaming the streets with performances. Intimacy enables rethinking this city, where ways of telling and knowing madness speak to agitation, kinship, strangeness and ordinary matters of sleep, dress and faecal matter.

Introduction. Madness, the Psychopolitical, and the Vernacular Rethinking Psychiatric Histories

2024-03-28

AFR volume 93 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

Africa · 2023-07-19

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