Disability Studies, Student Support, Inclusion, Learning Resources: Check them out below!
Radical Behavior
A Handbook for Humanizing the Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
Finally, an accessible and affordable resource for educators!
Radical Behavior offers a needed re-assessment of how teachers understand behavior issues found in their classrooms. Presented in clear language and not awash in acronyms, Radical Behavior demystifies the Functional Behavior Assessment and walks the reader through each step of the FBA process. Rather than try to ‘fix’ the child or enforce compliance, Radical Behavior challenges the educator to become agents of change and advocates for those in their care.
Designed for both professionals and students this handbook offers:
- An introduction to the Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
- A view of behavior as a form of communication and how to begin to listen to what it is saying
- An intimate understanding of what it means to be the subject of an FBA
- Tasks/Activities to guide learning
- Types of data collection and methods of data analysis
- Creating SMART goals and objectives
- Thinking Points that encourage the reader to reflect critically on the system in which they work and the role they play
Radical Behavior: Humanizing the Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) is a needed addition to classroom practice and teacher training.
Available as paperback and eBook. Get your copy HERE.
Now out!
Disability and the University: A Disabled Students’ Manifesto
2nd Edition
For the student: This is what you should demand.
For the institution: This is what you should
provide.
Disability and the University: A Disabled Students’
Manifesto, 2nd edition is a guide to what students
with disabilities need to know about attending
university, as well as to the essential supports
and rights universities should provide. Each
chapter represents a benchmark for students to
follow as they travel through the institution,
and lays clear what they should expect in the
post Covid world.
Written by those who have traversed the ter
rain of higher education, this book is not about
disabled students, but instead is a manifesto, a
call for change, a call to action. It is guide book,
blueprint, and tool for both students and uni-
versities.
Get your copy HERE
Disability and the University: A Disabled Students’ Manifesto
First Edition
Published by Peter Lang, and edited by Christopher McMaster and Benjamin Whitburn, this collection is a clear guide to not only what students want (and need to know), but what universities should provide. Each chapter presents a benchmark for students to follow as they travel through the institution, and also lays clear what they should expect. Each chapter is also a clear statement of what every institution of higher education should provide. While every country has its own practice and laws based on its own experience, arbitrary national boundaries should no longer be a reason for practices that do not meet student need. This book speaks across borders, east, west, north and south. It leaves no doubt about what needs to be done to develop more inclusive teaching and learning spaces.
This is not a book written about students with disabilities. It is written by those that have traversed the terrain and experienced higher education with a disability. It is in many ways a manifesto, a call for change, a call to action. It is a guide book, a blueprint, and a tool, for both students and universities.
Disability and the University: A Disabled Student’s Manifesto promises to be a seminal work in the field of student rights and student support.
Available from all good outlets, and, of course, the publisher HERE
A tremendous loss: We mourn the loss of Professor Mike Oliver, and are deeply honored that some of his last words are the foreword to this book.
Building more inclusive school communities, an experiential how to:
Educating All: Developing Inclusive School Cultures from Within
Educating All recounts Christopher McMaster’s experience as a critical ethnographer in a school community, given the task of not only studying the institution’s culture, but of creating change as well.
“Christopher McMaster’s presentation of the experience of a school in New Zealand applying a fusion of the Index for Inclusion and Freire’s notion of praxis provides sound guidance for other schools and their communities. This book has much to offer schools and their communities as they traverse the dilemmas and delights of building more inclusive schools for all students.”
Roger Slee, Founding Editor, the International Journal of Inclusive Education
Educating All is about school culture, inclusive education, and meaningful school change. Find it HERE
Enter your post-graduate studies equipped for success:
Survive and Succeed: Guides for Graduate Students
An international series
This series began as a desire to collaborate with other postgraduate students. It became six edited books involving teams of co-editors and over 125 contributors around the globe. Created and co-edited by Christopher McMaster, editions represent Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa, and the Nordic countries. Written by and for graduate students as they traverse higher education.
United States
“At a time when economic uncertainty rules not only everyday life but higher education as well, Graduate Study in the USA is both a bold political and theoretical call to action and an invaluable tool kit.”
Henry Giroux, McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest
Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland
“This book provides essential advice for navigating the possibilities and difficulties of doing a PhD in Nordic countries.”
“This book provides essential advice for navigating the possibilities and difficulties of doing a PhD in Nordic countries.”
Professor Brady Wagoner, Aalborg University.
United Kingdom
Published through Libri, Postgraduate Study in the UK offers students and prospective students lessons for their own unique journey through postgraduate study. Each chapter is written in a personal and relatable way, and the overall message is one of optimism that students can indeed do much more than simply survive, they can succeed.
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Topics include supervision, preparing for the viva voce, writing and publishing, maintaining wellness, navigating culture, wroking full time and juggling life’s many challenges. Everything you need to know to survive and succeed down under.
Published through NZCER Press
Postgraduate Study in Aotearoa New Zealand
Australia
“We learn best from our peers, who may also be our wisest mentors. This lively and wide-ranging book will show you not only how to survive and succeed in your postgraduate studies but how to take pleasure in the journey.”
Professor Helen Sword, University of Auckland
Postgraduate Study in Australia
South Africa
A ground breaking edition from South Africa, Postgraduate Study in South Africa: Surviving and Succeeding is a timely contribution to a growing national discourse on how students navigate higher education in South Africa
Postgraduate Study in South Africa
Learning Resources
The Choices Game: Staying Safe in Social Situations
A fun, interactive game that teaches vulnerable young people how to make positive choices and develop the social skills they need to stay safe in school and in te wider community. Vulnerable young people, such as those on the autism spectrum, intellectual disabilies, or social, behavioural and emotional difficulties often lack the skills to make the right decisionswhen faced with potentially dangerous scenarios. The Choices Game has been especially designed help older children and teenagers stay safe by learning how to make positive choices in social situations.
“The game is simple and very easy to learn and play and the instructions are excellent.”
– AS Teens
Published by Jessica King Publishers and available on many online retailing sites such as Amazon. NOTE: The Choices Game is now out of print, but there may be used copies available somewhere. The original run of 1500 games has sold out. Translation rights have been sold to GilEditores of Mexico, so stay tuned for the Spanish edition.
The Choice Games: Staying Safe in Social Situations
Christopher McMaster 