Det är vanligt att lärare kommer i kontakt med och undervisar elever som befinner sig i socioemotionella svårigheter. Många lärare känner sig otillräckliga eftersom de finner arbetet med elever i socioemotionella svårigheter som utmanande. Det här har bidragit till att vissa lärare förhåller sig negativt till inkludering. När lärare känner sig otillräckliga finns möjlighet att söka hjälp från specialpedagoger. Därmed blir det betydelsefullt att veta vilka förväntningar lärare har på specialpedagogen. Syftet har varit att utforska hur lärare uppfattar socioemotionella svårigheter och hur de förhåller sig till inkludering. Vidare var syftet att undersöka vilka utmaningar lärarna möter i arbetet med elever i socioemotionella svårigheter samt vilka förväntningar som finns på specialpedagogen. Denna uppsats har en kvalitativ ansats och semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts med lärare. Intervjuer genomfördes via röst- samt telefonsamtal. En tematisk analys har tillämpats och de specialpedagogiska perspektiven har använts som analysverktyg. Lärarna framhöll både positiva och negativa aspekter med inkludering gällande elever i socioemotionella svårigheter. Däremot framkom ett mer positivt förhållningssätt om lärarna gavs bättre förutsättningar att genomföra inkludering. Lärarna framhöll det som utmanande att undvara tid åt att hjälpa elever i socioemotionella svårigheter och anpassa undervisningen till deras behov, parallellt med övriga klassen. Den hjälp som förväntades av specialpedagogen önskades ske huvudsakligen genom olika former av samtal. / It is not unusual that teachers come in contact with students who are in socioemotional difficulties. Many teachers feel inadequate while working with students in socioemotional difficulties as they find it challenging. This has contributed to the fact that some teachers have a negative attitude towards inclusion. When teachers feel inadequate, there is the opportunity to seek help from special educators. Thus, it is important for the special educator to know which expectations teachers have on the special educators. The aim of this study was to explore how teachers perceive socioemotional difficulties and how teachers relate to inclusion. Furthermore the aim of this study was to explore what challenges teachers face when working with students in socioemotional difficulties and what expectations there are on the special educator. A qualitative approach has been adopted in study and semi-structured interviews have been conducted with teachers. Interviews were conducted by voice and telephone calls. A thematic analysis has been applied and the special educational perspectives have been used as an analysis tool. The teachers emphasized both positive and negative aspects with inclusion, regarding students in socioemotional difficulties. However, a more positive attitude emerged if they were given better prerequisites to implement inclusion. Teachers emphasized that it was challenging to spend time helping students in socio-emotional difficulties and adapt the teaching to their needs, in parallel with the rest of the class. The help that was expected of the special educator was wanted mainly through various forms of conversation.

Examensarbetet syftar till att bidra med kunskap kring vilka framgångsfaktorer och hinder det kan finnas vid utvecklingsprojekt i skolor och hur resultatet av ett projekt kan upplevas av pedagogerna. Syftet är även att undersöka på vilket sätt specialpedagogerna varit delaktiga i utvecklingsprojektet. Vid utvecklingsarbete i skolan är det bland annat viktigt med ett fungerande systematiskt kvalitetsarbete som grund för utvecklandet av verksamheten. Rektors roll och ledarskap har stor betydelse liksom hur man i utvecklingsarbete tar sin utgångspunkt i den dagliga verksamheten. Annat som kan vara av vikt är till exempel kontinuitet, vilka normer och värderingar som råder på skolorna samt om specialpedagogen har en roll i arbetet. Vi har undersökt ett befintligt projekt som bedrevs i sju skolor i en svensk stad under ett läsår. På fyra av skolorna har vi gjort kvalitativa undersökningar genom intervjuer med pedagoger och specialpedagoger. Vi använde oss av chatintervjuer genom delade dokument i Google Drive. Lärande i organisationer inom organisationsteorin och den institutionella teorin användes för att analysera vårt resultat. Resultatet visar att det fanns många hinder som gjorde projektet mindre lyckat. Till exempel var målen otydliga, pedagoger kände en brist på ledarskap, rektorer slutade, dåliga organisatoriska förutsättningar och svag koppling till verksamheternas vardagsarbete. Målen för projektet nåddes ej och det arbete som sattes igång avstannade på samtliga skolor. Specialpedagogerna var inte delaktiga i arbetet med projektet. En slutsats är att skolan är en komplex verksamhet och varje skola har olika förutsättningar, både organisatoriskt och gällande värderingar och normer. Detta påverkar arbetet i skolan och måste tas hänsyn till vid utvecklingsarbeten. / The purpose of our study is to contribute with knowledge about factors that can hinder and promote developing projects in schools and how the teachers can experience results of a specific project. Our purpose is also to study the participation of special educational needs coordinator, SENCO, in this specific project. When we want to develop our schools it is important to have a systematic circle of analysis and evaluation. The role and leadership of the principal is of great importance as well as how well the developing project is founded in the daily activities of the school. Key factors can also be continuity, norms and values as well as to what degree the SENCO is involved. Our study is of an existing project that were carried out in seven schools in a Swedish city during one year. We have made qualitative studies in four of the schools through interviews with teachers and SENCOs. We used chatinterviews with a shared document in Google Drive. Learning organization in Organization theory and Institutional theory were used to analyze our results. Our results shows that the project were not very successful due to many hindrances. The objectives of the project were for example not explicit, there were lack of leadership, some of the principals ended their jobs, the organizational structures for the teachers were unsatisfying and there were weak correspondence with the daily work of the schools. The objectives for the project were not met and the work that were launched in the beginning of the year stopped after one year in all of the studied schools. The SENCOs did not participate in the project. Our conclusion is that every specific school has its own organizational foundation as well as its own set of values and norms. This has to be taken in consideration when we want to make changes and work with developing projects.

Diplomová práce Distanční vzdělávání žáků se sociálním znevýhodněním Distance education of pupils with the need for support due to different cultural and living conditions Miroslava Haplová ABSTRACT Closing schools and launching distance education in spring of the year 2020 have brought new experience into the Czech educational system and the whole society. This situation has had a great impact especially on the pupils with special needs including those with social disadvantage. The qualitative research together with structured and semi-structured interviews with socially disadvantaged families and educational service workers will, with emphasis on the issue of pupils with social disadvantage, help clarify the input preconditions for distance education with its obstacles, schools' strategies, the role of special tutors and the schools' potential for collaboration with other institutions and participants at the time of distance eduction. The outcomes of this thesis reveal that to find an adequate way to support the pupils with special needs, it is crucial for the schools to know the pupils' family conditions and set up a suitable strategy for their education based on the situation. The aspects of the social disadvantage play even more distinctive role during distance education compared to the common...

Diabetes is a illness many people have heard of and think they understand, yet many diabetic learners go unrecognised and unnoticed. The research question of the study was to determine the developmental and learning needs and the assets of the learner with type I diabetes in the foundation phase. The study had the following aims concerning learners with type I diabetes in the foundation phase: • To identify the developmental and learning needs and the assets of these learners • To provide knowledge about and understanding of these learners • To rally friends, family, the school, teachers and the community to become external and internal asset builders in the development of these learners. The ecological perspective was viewed as an appropriate framework for conceptualising this study. The needs and asset-based approach was included in the theoretical framework to gain a holistic view of these learners. This was a qualitative ethnographic study using case studies. The research was based on the interpretative paradigm. After an in-depth literature survey, data were collected in four phases in questionnaires, followed by semi-structured interviews held with a non-random sample of three learners with type I diabetes drawn from different cultures, their parents and teachers. The semi-structured interviews were recorded and transcribed and the data coded and analysed inductively. A narrative approach was used for interpreting the data. The relationship between the participants and their ecology was investigated to determine the factors in the learners’ environment. The learners’ developmental and learning needs and the assets inherent in each unique participant were identified. / Dissertation (MPhil (Education for Community Development))--University of Pretoria, 2004. / Curriculum Studies / unrestricted

Syftet med studien har varit att undersöka vad några specialpedagoger verksamma inom grundskolan berättar om handledning och konsultation i skolan. Studien har genomförts utifrån kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med syfte att fånga informanternas berättelser, i enlighet med narrativ teori. Efter genomförandet av intervjuerna transkriberades, kodades och tematiserades dem, vilket utmynnade i olika teman och subteman i relation till syfte och frågeställningar. Resultatet visar att rollen som specialpedagog formas olika utifrån faktorer som styrdokument, utbildning, förväntningar, erfarenheter, personliga intressen och förutsättningar som ges i den egna verksamheten. Det kvalificerade samtalet skrivs fram som ett paraplybegrepp för studien och berättelserna kring detta samtalsbegrepp och begreppen handledning och konsultation, som rör avgränsningen för densamma, skiljer sig åt mellan informanterna. Det framkommer en tvetydig bild av definitionen av det kvalificerade samtalet likväl som uppfattningen och tolkningen av begreppen handledning och konsultation. Det är tydligt att specialpedagogens otydliga roll har en stark inverkan på vad informanterna berättar om handledning och konsultation då rollen formas, enligt studien, mycket efter personen som innehar rollen. För att vidareutveckla det kvalificerade samtalet som kraftfullt verktyg i praktiken skulle den pedagogiska handledningen med fokus på pedagogisk utveckling behöva diskuteras vidare. Vi ser också behovet av att säkerställa rektorers kunskap kring uppdraget, som ett led i att bereda plats för samtalsuppdraget i praktiken. / The purpose of the study has been to investigate what some Special Educational Needs Coordinators working in elementary school have to say about supervision and consultation at school. The study has been conducted on the basis of qualitative, semi-structured interviews with the purpose of capturing the informants' stories according to narrative theory. After undertaking the interviews, they were transcribed, encoded and thematized, which resulted in different themes and subthemes in relation to the purpose of the study as well as to our research- questions. The results show that the role of a Special Educational Needs Coordinator is formed differently, depending on factors such as; governing documents, education, expectations, experiences, personal interests and the current conditions in their individual workplaces. The qualified conversation is written as an umbrella term for the study and the stories about this concept of conversation and the concepts of supervision and consultation, concerning the boundaries, differ between the informants. There is an unclear picture of the definition of the qualified conversation, as well as the perception and interpretation of the concepts of supervision and consultation. It is evident that the Special Educational Needs Coordinator's unclear role has a strong impact on what the informants tell us about supervision and consultation as the role is formed, according to the study, mostly based on the person holding the role. In order to further develop the qualified conversation as a powerful tool in practice, pedagogical guidance focusing on educational development needs to be further discussed. We can also identify a need to ensure the headteacher's knowledge of the assignment, as part of preparing a place for the communication assignment in practice.

The aim of the diploma thesis is to highlight the importance of a teaching assistant in terms of contribution to the educational process for pupils with SVP at primary level. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on the issue of pupils with special educational needs. It reflects the current trend of education, which is based on the uniform rights of all to education, especially in the case of differences, whether health or social, and describes inclusive approaches to education. The inclusion is based on the cooperation of selected actors - the pupil, school management, teachers, their assistants, legal representatives and representatives of counseling facilities, so the theoretical part also touches on this issue. It also contains the characteristics of pupils with SVP and summarizes the disabilities, social and health disadvantages that entitle the pupil to the assignment of a teaching assistant. From the professional point of view, the teaching assistant approaches the profession, the necessary education to perform the profession, the historical development in terms of the occurrence of this profession in teaching and at the same time capture the development of the importance of this role. In the practical part, a quantitative research was conducted in the form of online questionnaires....

Limited research has been conducted about the involvement of parents in the education of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in South Africa. The main aim of this study was to explore how involved parents and teachers are in the education of learners with ASD in a special educational needs school in Emalahleni. The research investigation was rooted in Epstein’s model for parental involvement. Situated in the interpretivist paradigm, the study adopted a qualitative approach. Data were collected through interviews, document analysis and observations with four parents and four teachers in a special educational needs school in Emalahleni, accommodating learners with ASD. Only parents of learners with ASD and teachers working with children with ASD were included in the study. The findings of the study highlight the importance of parental involvement, benefits and barriers that are associated with parental involvement in the education of children with ASD. The researcher also reported on ways in which parental involvement in the education of children with ASD can be enhanced. The recommendations concluded that in order to promote academic success, the teachers and the parents need to work together. Lastly, the data obtained in this study can be used as a baseline for future research on the parental involvement in South Africa. Future research is needed in order to determine the barriers and benefits of parental involvement in the education of learners with ASD in South Africa. / Inclusive Education / M. Ed. (Inclusive Education)

This diploma thesis concerns the topic of inclusive education in the Czech Republic with a focus on school counseling staff as the main representatives of street-level bureaucracy in the process of inclusive education. The general aim of this study is to examine the situation after the implementation of the Amendment No. 82/2015 Coll. of the Education Act from the point of view of school counseling staff. Moreover, the study also examines whether the current position of street-level bureaucracy in the inclusive education process is well-set and whether the current system settings meet the needs of the recipients of service. The objectives are fulfilled via qualitative research, particularly eight semi- structured interviews with school counseling staff and two semi-structured interviews with NGO representatives, and analysis of relevant public policy documents. Based on the qualitative research among these respondents, it concludes that the work concluded that there is scope for improvement in many ways in the current form of inclusive education in the Czech Republic, especially in staffing, financial support and mutual communication and cooperation among the actors involved.

This thesis is about strategies applied by the teaching assistant and his tools of help in connection with the pupil in the learning process. The theoretical part includes the following themes: the inclusion, the position of teaching assistant and the pupils with special educational needs. The practical part of thesis solves the problems of two individual pupils with special educational needs visiting the first grade of elementary school. This part aims at searching and reflection of effective help from the teaching assistant to the pupil. The practical part is based on an action research that is divided into two parts. Each practical part is dedicated to one pupil. The first part of the action research dedicated to pupil J. solves a problem with pupil's seisures and his return to the learning proces. During the research, it has been observed that the pupil is returned to the learning proces through the quiet handling of teaching assistant connected with an eye contact. The second part of the action reasearch is dedicated to the pupil P. The problem of low self-confidence and often giving up of his work before its completion is solved in this part. In this case the tool prepared in cooperation with the teaching assistant and the class teacher seems to be effective. This tool helps the pupil to...

This thesis deals with the occurrence of scientifically gifted students at Czech schools. The talent affects a person's life fundamentally but also it influences the lives of others people. These gifted and talented people usually become leading scientists and researchers. They can affect important social events significantly during their professional careers. After the family teachers and school are the most important part in development of the child. Therefore teachers should know what specific educational requirements gifted students have. It's necessary to determine the status of teachers. In the theoretical part of the thesis the main aim of the literary review was a theoretical background of the talent, the incidence of gifted pupils at Czech and foreign schools, the work with gifted pupils at foreign schools and educational institutions and associations working with gifted children. In the practical part of the thesis a questionnaire was created and then distributed to teachers of science subjects. The questionnaire has found foreknowledge Czech teachers of the concept of genius and talent. Whether teachers are able to identify gifted pupils in the classroom what forms of work with talented students are used and the questionnaire was evaluated. Proposals and suggestions were created for working with...