Published Article / The medical biological and ecosystemic models are two paradigms which are currently making a huge impact on education support services on an international level. The medical biological model has been dominating the way in which multidisciplinary support has been delivered within 20th-century special education. However, with the advent of inclusive education, the ecosystemic model has initially been pushed to the fore as the preferred metatheory of support services. This article specifically interrogates these two conflicting paradigms in education support services within the South African schooling and higher education bands, as well as Bronfenbrenner's integration of these models with regard to the bio-ecological model. Finally, this article proposes the bio-ecosystemic framework according to which the training of multidisciplinary education support services staff should proceed in order to ensure a sound and less conflicting theoretical framework.

This diploma thesis deals with the life of a student with Asperger Syndrome at university. The theoretical part is dedicated to the characteristics of Asperger Syndrome, it explains the history, terms and specific areas of the given disability. Further, the work explores the particular areas in the life of the individual with this disability and familiarizes the readers with the organizations, which help the people with Asperger Syndrome. On the basis of the theoretical part, qualitative research investigation was selected for the practical part of the thesis. In the practical part, there is presented the case study of the individual with Asperger Syndrome, which provides an overall insight into the ways of supporting a student with Asperger Syndrome at university by means of the analysis of the interviews, observations and documents. Key words: Asperger Syndrome, university, support, education

v TITTLE: Special Education Support for University Students with Dyslexia ABSTRACT: The diploma thesis is focused on special education support for university students with dyslexia. The task of the theoretical part is to describe diagnostics, learning strategies, reeducation of dyslexia and possible support for students with dyslexia at the university. The theoretical was drawn from the scientific literature. The aim of practical part is to detect how Universities provide support to their students. The aim was achieved by using analysis of university documents and websites and survey. KEYWORDS: dyslexia, special education support, learning strategies, university, student

Existing research has shown that care leavers are one of the most disadvantaged groups in society and are at particular risk of experiencing negative long-term outcomes including unemployment, homelessness and mental health problems. This thesis makes a contribution to knowledge in this area by focusing upon a group of care leavers about whom very little is currently known: care leavers in higher education. These are young people who despite the odds, have succeeded educationally and are overcoming their early disadvantage to make a successful transition from care into adulthood. This thesis uses Bourdieu's theory on transformation and reproduction in society and the concepts of capital, field and habitus to explore care leavers' experiences of higher education. It considers how the support available to care leavers from their local authorities and higher education institutions has developed since Jackson and colleagues (2005) Going to University from Care study first highlighted deficits in the level of support provided to care leavers. This thesis also compares the experiences of care leavers with students from other disadvantaged backgrounds to understand where care leavers have specific support needs as a result of not being supported at university by their birth parents. Finally, this thesis considers the impact of the Buttle UK Quality Mark, developed in response to the findings of Jackson and colleagues (2005) and awarded to universities demonstrating a commitment to supporting care leavers.

Magister Educationis - MEd / South Africa has a history of inequalities due to the Apartheid system, much of this is reflected in Educational policies regarding Special Education, Specialised Education and Educational Support Services resulting in inadequate education. "Education White Paper 6", (Department of Education, 2006) is a response by the South African government to the inequalities, which constitute as barriers to learning. The key to reducing barriers to learning at all levels of education lies in the strengthening of Education Support Services, (Department of Education, 2001). Thus Support Services Systems are established at various levels including National, Provincial, Regional, and Education Districts and at Institutional Level. At the level of Institutions, Institutional Level Support Teams are established as a school -based team, with its primary function to put in place learner and educator support services. Institutional Level Support Teams (ILSTs) are expected to co-opt expertise from the school community, collaborate with the local community, parents and the District department of education. The Institutional Level Support Teams are expected to collaborate or form partnership to achieve their common goals and successful achievement of their objectives. The main objective of this study was to gain insight into educator's perspectives on collaboration or forming partnership with other members of their schools' ILSTs. These perspectives related to the attitudes educators have towards collaboration in the ILST, the benefits they consider deriving from their work at the ILST, the activities they involve themselves in and the challenges they face while collaborating with other members of their schools' ILST. The study adopted a mixed methods approach and involved teachers of four high schools in the Western Cape. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected using questionnaire and interview protocol. The results of the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data collected for the study revealed that the educators who participated in the study expressed fairly positive attitudes towards collaborating with other stakeholders in the ILSTs. The participants felt that their participation in the schools' ILSTs was beneficial to the learners, parents and educators. All activities presented to them on the questionnaire were endorsed as those they participated in while collaborating with others in their schools' ILSTs. The participants also indicated that they experienced a number of challenges while collaborating with others in their schools ILSTs. These challenges include a lack of parental and community involvement as well as poor guidelines on the operations of ILST by the Department of Education. The study provides recommendation as to how to improve collaboration in the ILST.

A Astronomia é uma das mais antigas ciências criadas pela humanidade. Talvez pelo encantamento de observar as estrelas e perguntar-se o que elas faziam ali, é que o ser humano aperfeiçoou instrumentos que permitiram enxergar além de seus próprios olhos. Embora seja uma ciência antiga, mantém-se moderna e está em constante transformação, e suas contribuições são relevantes até os dias atuais. No contexto escolar, a Astronomia tem o potencial de encantar e fascinar; entretanto, o que vivenciamos é uma desvalorização de sua importância pela abordagem do tema em sala de aula, que algumas vezes é inadequada Os professores, de modo geral, mostram-se despreparados para tratarem de um assunto tão complexo, cometendo muitos equívocos, apoiados em livros didáticos. A proposta deste trabalho foi a elaboração de uma Sequência Didática interdisciplinar para trabalhar assuntos relacionados a conceitos básicos das ciências da Terra e do Universo, focando o Sistema Solar, e comparando as diferenças da Terra com os demais planetas. A SD foi planejada de acordo com a validação no processo EAR (Elaboração, Aplicação e Reelaboração), para alunos do 5º ano do Ensino Fundamental. Fruto disso é a organização de um Material de Apoio ao professor, que qualquer profissional da educação pode utilizar e adaptar ao seu contexto. Deseja-se com esta proposta promover a ampliação dos estudos de Astronomia e das Ciências da Terra nas escolas, de modo a oferecer aos professores das séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental atividades que proporcionem uma aprendizagem significativa e motivadora, estimulando a aquisição da alfabetização científica, por meio da investigação e pesquisa. Espera-se favorecer com isso a compreensão de que o estudo de Astronomia e do planeta Terra pode contribuir com todas as áreas do conhecimento. / Astronomy is one of the most ancient sciences created by humanity. Perhaps its because of the fascination of observing the stars and wondering what were they doing there that human beings improved the tools that allow us to see beyond our eyes. Even though its an ancient science it remains modern and is in constant transformation, and its contributions are revelant up until now. In an educational context, Astronomy has the potential to fascinate, although what we experience in practice is the devaluation of its importance due the approach of the theme in classrooms, which is at times inadequate. Teachers, in general, present themselves unprepared to explain such complex matters, making several mistakes based on textbooks. The proposal of this work was the elaboration of an interdisciplinary didactic sequence to work with topics related to basic concepts regarding Earth and Space/Astronomical Sciences, with a focus on the solar system, and the comparison of the differences between Earth and the other planets. The didactic sequence was planned according to the validation in the EAR (elaboration, application and re-elaboration) for fifth grade students. Its result is the organization of a teachers guide so that any education professional can use and adapt it to his/her context. The main point of this proposal is to promote a broadening of Astronomy and Earth Science studies in schools in order to offer primary school teachers activities that provide a meaningful and motivating learning experience, stimulating the acquisition of scientific literacy through investigation and research. With this work we hope to encourage the comprehension that Astromomy and Earth studies can contribute within all the knowledge areas.

The theoretical part of the diploma work defines intellectual disabilities, as well as the possibilities of counselling and educating of pupils with mental disabilities. Further, the thesis discusses education and re-education of pupils with diagnosed mental retardation. It outlines the inclusion of financial literacy into the curricular documents intended for pupils with a mental disability across educational areas with emphasis on mathematics. The thesis introduces materials and their parameters suitable for the inclusion of financial literacy at practical primary schools. The practical part covers experimental education of individual thematic topics of financial literacy at practical primary schools. The carried out initial diagnostics of pupils at a selected practical primary school focused on percentages, simple interest and a family budget. This diagnostics had a general character, as was also verified. Furthermore, the thesis presents a detailed record from own executed teaching with regard to four monitored pupils, including their casuistry. After the completion of the teaching, its success was assessed. The work can be used not only by teachers at practical primary schools but also at ordinary primary schools, because it contains a series of graded tasks that lead to the development of...

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-10-04T12:28:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 NILZE HELENA DÉROULÈDE.pdf: 830924 bytes, checksum: d252453b613ad21aeb3cc078fae6c067 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-04T12:28:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NILZE HELENA DÉROULÈDE.pdf: 830924 bytes, checksum: d252453b613ad21aeb3cc078fae6c067 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002-08-01 / In this study, the inclusive education is approached, having been chosen, as theme, the Support Section in the School Inclusive Process as part of a the Reference Unit’s Project, recently developed by the Superintendency Special Teaching of the Goiás' Education's State General Office which has for purpose to give support to the inclusive actions in the state and municipal nets of teaching's schools. The Support Section is formed by multiprofessionals teams and it’s considered by many authors as a facilitative resource and a mediator of the teacher's pedagogic and educational practices, of the school and family, by representing the possibility of contributing and providing conditions for more appropriated services aiming the development of each student's special education needs. To make possible the research, a qualitative approach was used and, as methodological way, the microethnography line which searches for the unit analysis as a cutting instance that conserves the properties of the whole that it’s intended to investigate. This way, was analyzed the work developed by one of the Support Section's teams of the Maria Lusia de Oliveira Reference’s Unit with the State School President Dutra, in Goiânia, discussing this team's performance and its relationships with the school, with two teachers and with a Syndrome of Down's student and her family. It searched to discover the contributions that have been offered by the Support Section to the teachers' educational practice and the support forms given to the school community, seeking the understanding and the internalization of the social value of the opportunities' equality and of the differences' respect and acceptance. The referencial used is the socialinteractionism model that is ruled by the cooperation, the mediation and by the interaction between the professionals' team and the school community involved. The investigation's demanded results take to consider that the work developed by the Support Section, observed its limitations and after some structural adjustments, is important, has potential and is possible as a base to sustain the inclusive education improvement. The Support Section can contribute, as partner of the regular teaching, in the sense of showing, through sensitization actions and educational and pedagogic actions, the differences' social value, inside the same education space, where all can learn together, in a reciprocal change of efficiencies, despite the differences. / Neste estudo, é abordada a educação inclusiva, tendo sido escolhido como tema o Setor de Apoio no Processo Inclusivo Escolar, por fazer parte do Projeto Unidade de Referência recentemente desenvolvido pela Superintendência de Ensino Especial da Secretaria Estadual de Educação de Goiás e que tem por finalidade dar suporte às ações inclusivistas nas escolas das redes estadual e municipal de ensino. O Setor de Apoio é formado por equipes multiprofissionais e considerado por muitos autores como um recurso facilitador e mediador das práticas pedagógicas e educativas do professor, da escola e da família, por representar a possibilidade de contribuir e de proporcionar condições para atendimentos mais adequados, visando ao desenvolvimento das necessidades educacionais especiais de cada aluno. Para viabilizar a pesquisa, utilizou-se uma abordagem qualitativa e, como caminho metodológico, a linha microetnográfica, que busca fazer análises por unidade, como uma instância de recorte que conserva as propriedades do todo que se pretende investigar. Desse modo, analisou-se o trabalho desenvolvido por uma das equipes do Setor de Apoio da Unidade de Referência Maria Lusia de Oliveira junto à Escola Estadual Presidente Dutra, em Goiânia, questionando a atuação desta equipe em suas relações com a escola, com duas professoras e com uma aluna com Síndrome de Down e sua família. Buscou-se averiguar as contribuições que têm sido oferecidas pelo Setor de Apoio à prática educativa das professoras e as formas de apoio dadas à comunidade escolar, visando à compreensão e a internalização do valor social da igualdade de oportunidades, do respeito e da aceitação das diferenças. O referencial utilizado é o modelo sociointeracionista, que se pauta pela cooperação, pela mediação e pela interação entre os profissionais da equipe e a comunidade escolar envolvida. Os resultados demandados desta investigação levam a considerar que o trabalho desenvolvido pelo Setor de Apoio, observadas suas limitações e após alguns ajustes estruturais, é importante, tem potencial e é viável como pilar para sustentar a construção da educação inclusiva. O Setor de Apoio pode contribuir, como parceiro do ensino regular, no sentido de mostrar, através de ações de sensibilização, de ações educativas e pedagógicas, o valor social das diferenças dentro de um mesmo espaço educacional, onde todos podem aprender juntos, numa troca recíproca de eficiências, apesar das diferenças.

<p>The aim of the research was to establish the factors relevant to the delivery of education support to the Khomani San school community, and to propose a model for appropriate education support to the Khomani San school community. In order to reach this aim I strove to answer the following questions: What ethics need to be considered to guide research with this indigenous community? What are the key policy guidelines for education support services in South Africa? Is there a link between community psychology and education support services in the South African context? How are education support services understood and currently delivered to the Khomani San school community? What suggestions can be proposed for relevant education support services delivery to the Khomani San school community? </p>

Mokiniai, turintys kalbėjimo, kalbos ir komunikacijos sutrikimų, mokydamiesi bendrojo lavinimo mokyklose, susiduria su specifiniais sunkumais, kuriuos lemia sutrikę ar nepakankamai išlavinti kalbiniai gebėjimai. Jiems turi būti teikiama individualizuota, mokinių poreikius atitinkanti pagalba. O vienas iš svarbių pagalbos teikėjų – mokytojas. Iškelta hipotezė, kad pedagogai bendradarbiaudami su mokyklos logopedais, kitų institucijų specialistais aktyviai dalyvauja vaikų, turinčių kalbėjimo, kalbos ir komunikacijos sutrikimų, ugdymo procese bei teikiant jiems pagalbą įveikiant šiuos sutrikimus. Atliktas empirinis tyrimas, kurio tikslas – išsiaiškinti pedagogų požiūrį į mokinius, turinčius kalbėjimo, kalbos ir komunikacijos sutrikimų bei jų taikomus ugdymo metodus, bendradarbiavimo su kitais specialistais aspektus. Siekiant užsibrėžto tikslo tyrimui naudota anketa bei interviu. Tyrime dalyvavo 100 pradinių klasių pedagogų iš įvairių miesto pradinių bei vidurinių mokyklų. / Pupils with speech, language and communication disorders in secondary schools face specific difficulties caused by impaired or underdevelopped language skills. Students must be given individualized support. And one of the major donors is the teacher. The hypothesis shows that teachers in collaboration with the school speech therapists and other specialists from different institutions actively participate in children‘s with language and communication disorders educational process and assist them in dealing with these problems. An empirical study is made to find out teachers' approach to students with speech, language and communication disorders. In order to achieve the objective study a questionnaire and an interview are used. The study involved 100 primary school teachers from various primary and secondary schools in town.