Special Education in China: How Culture Affects Special Education [PDF]
Undergraduate Theoretical ...
Hosek, Melissa
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(Special) Education is Political; (Special) Education is Social Justice
Though treated as neutral and apolitical by schools, teachers, scholars, and administrators, special education is fraught with inequality and loaded language, and can function to segregate and disempower students. The debate over who is worthy of education–and what kind of education–is intimately tied to conceptions of dis/ability.
Lilly B. Padía+1 more
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A Moral Debate at the Invisible Rainbow: Thoughts about Best Practices in Servicing LGBTQ Students in Special Education [PDF]
Instead of occupying a marginal space within teacher preparation programs, special education courses and training should promote diversity in servicing marginalized groups such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students ...
Fugate, Matthew+2 more
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Developing collaborative partnerships with culturally and linguistically diverse families during the IEP process [PDF]
Family participation in the special education process has been federally mandated for 40 years, and educators recognize that effective collaboration with their students’ families leads to improved academic and social outcomes for students. However, while
Ferguson D.+7 more
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Introduction.Training a competitive specialist at the level of a master program is an important educational goal. The problem of the continuity of educational levels as a condition for the quality of graduate training is debatable, because the focus of ...
Alla V. Zakrepina+2 more
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Structured evaluation of virtual environments for special-needs education [PDF]
This paper describes the development of a structured approach to evaluate experiential and communication virtual learning environments (VLEs) designed specifically for use in the education of children with severe learning difficulties at the Shepherd ...
Bonner J.+16 more
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The purpose of this research was to better understand the challenges, as well as ways to overcome the aforementioned challenges, associated with sex and reproductive health education for parents of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from the
Manar A. Shakuri, Hassan M. Alzahrani
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Support for the beginning special educator through high quality mentoring [PDF]
Approximately 50% of school districts across the nation have reported barriers in obtaining highly qualified teachers (U.S. Department of Education, 2009). Beginning special education teachers report that they often feel they lack the prerequisite skills
Madigan, Jennifer C, Scroth-Cavataio, G
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A systematic review of pedagogical approaches that can effectively include children with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms with a particular focus on peer group interactive approaches [PDF]
The broad background to this review is a long history of concepts of special pupils and special education, and a faith in special pedagogical approaches. The rise of inclusive schools and some important critiques of special pedagogy (e.g.
Collins, J.+5 more
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En este trabajo se presentan el abordaje histórico-cultural de Vigotsky y sus contribuciones a la educación de alumnos autistas. Este artículo es resultado de una investigación-acción realizada a diez alumnos y sus profesores en una escuela especializada
Sílvia Ester Orrú
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