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Collaboration in Special Education: Bringing Shalom to the Individual Education Program Meeting

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This chapter is a combined product of years of experience as a special education practitioner and professional development in the area of faith-learning integration. Metaparadigms of special education was used as a novel framework for faith-learning integration in the field of special education. Specifically, the concept of collaboration was utilized as a model of the process of faith-learning integration. The concepts of expertise, motivation, and group dynamics are presented as underpinnings to collaboration, specifically to the development of an Individual Education Program (IEP) meeting with the goal of achieving shalom.

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Bartholio, C.W. (2017). Collaboration in Special Education: Bringing Shalom to the Individual Education Program Meeting. In: Lee, H., Kaak, P. (eds) The Pedagogy of Shalom. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2987-5_11

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