Considering the significance of integrating students with disabilities into general education classes in Mississippi, it is critical to identify the methods by which co-teachers report working together, whether they have obtained the needed professional development, and which teaching model they employ in the inclusion classroom. This data can facilitate the assessment and efficacy of inclusive practices and offer valuable insights into potential areas requiring enhancement. Furthermore, by gaining insight into the experiences of co-teachers, future training initiatives and assistance for educators in advocating for the effective integration of students with disabilities can be enhanced. The purpose of this research was to determine the manner in which inclusion general and special education teachers in Mississippi public schools collaborate, whether they have participated in professional development, and which instructional approach they employ in the inclusion classroom. A mixed methodologies research study was conducted utilizing a SurveyMonkey survey. The frequencies and percentages of the responses to the multiple-choice questions were determined via quantitative analysis. To ascertain codes and themes, open-ended responses were subjected to qualitative analysis. The study's findings offered valuable insights into how inclusion instructors in Mississippi recount their experiences in an inclusion classroom.

Syftet med denna studie är att, förstå hur några elever med diagnosen intellektuell funktionsnedsättning, deras vårdnadshavare och pedagoger, uppfattar en integrerad skolstruktur i grundskolan utifrån ett individ- grupp- och organisationsperspektiv.   Studien bygger på totalt sex intervjuer, två med elever, två med elevernas vårdnadshavare och två med den pedagog som eleverna träffar företrädelsevis i undervisningssituation. Som metod användes kvalitativa intervjuer med av en intervjuguide med utgångspunkt från ett individ- grupp- och organisationsperspektiv.   Resultatet i min studie visar att eleverna trivs i en integrerad skolstruktur, de beskriver på olika sätt en känsla av tillhörighet i sina klasser och är nöjda med sin skolsituation. Vårdnadshavarnas erfarenheter är liknande, men de beskriver också att barnets funktionsnedsättning har varit central för vilka resurser skolan tillfört. Det specialpedagogiska stödet har organiserats på olika sätt beroende på elevens behov, och alla beskriver stödet som positivt. Resultatet visar också att de två pedagogernas erfarenhet av en integrerad skolstruktur är begränsad, vilket de själv ser som en svårighet. Båda beskriver nödvändigheten av ett samarbete med grundsärskolan, specialpedagog och speciallärare för att kunna möta eleverna på sin nivå och utifrån deras förutsättningar / The purpose of this study is to understand how some students who are diagnosed with learning disabilities, their guardians and teachers, percieve an integrated school structure in the compulsory school, based on individual, group and organisational perspectives.   The study is based on six interviews. Two with students, two with the students' guardians and two with the teachers the students meet mainley in learning situations. A qualitative interwieus was used with an interview guide, based on individual, group and organizational perspectives.   The results of my study show that students appreciate an integrated school structure. They describe in different ways a sense of belonging in their classes and are satisfied with their school situation. The guardians’ experiences are similar, but also describe how the child's disability has been instrumental to which resources the school has provided. The special education support has been organised in different ways depending on the student's needs, and everyone involved describes the support as positive. The result also shows that the two teachers experience of an integrated school structure is limited, which they themselves see as a difficulty. These two teachers describe the necessity of collaboration with compulsory school for learning disabilities, the special education unit in order to meet students at their level and based on their abilities.

The work presents Romani women as one of the disadvantaged groups for whom, according to transnational organizations, lifelong learning should be an opportunity to improve employability and improve social position in society. Today's society is working to make primary, secondary and terciary education accessible to disadvantaged children and youth, and adult education should also be prepared for diverse groups of learners. Inclusive education should respect the specific needs of its target group. The diploma thesis, based on fifteen years of experience in the education of Roma women, available data and knowledge gained through quantitative and qualitative research, specifies the perceived educational needs and expectations of this specific disadvantaged group in relation to further education. The thesis describes the intersectionality with which Romani women cope in life, and which must be perceived as the background and cause of the barriers they face in accessing further education. The last chapter outlines appropriate methods of making further education accessible to adult Romani women. Findings captured at work can also be related to other groups on the margins of society and at risk in the labor market. Key words: Roma, women, lifelong learning, further education, education, inclusion in...

Job–embedded coaching, whereby an expert in a particular knowledge domain such as childhood disability, teaching, or special education actively works and collaborates with educators long–term, has been demonstrated to be a successful approach to developing educator knowledge and practice. In consultative models educators may consult colleagues within the school, such as health care professionals and fellow educators, or they may attend professional workshops. However, consultative do not efficiently address how educators can better support students’ learning challenges in daily teaching practice and this knowledge is difficult to attain through traditional short–term professional development. The learning, social, and behavioural needs experienced by children and youth with disabilities frequently stem from underlying complex health care needs and are oftentimes too challenging for educators alone to address. Using a realist evaluation framework––which examines what works for whom and how in a given setting–– this multiple case comparison critically analyzed two separate cases that used job-embedded coaching in Ontario schools to build educator capacity about teaching children with diverse needs within the general classroom. One case was grounded in the rehabilitation model of service delivery whereby the coach was an occupational therapist, and the other case was grounded in education and employed a teacher with training in special education in the coach role. Examining context revealed that factors beyond coaching were responsible for its success. The contexts to which the implementing leaders belonged informed project driver mechanisms (e.g., professional training, designation, perspectives and experiences, model of service delivery) important for service delivery, teacher, coach, and student outcomes. Community mechanisms associated with the environment in which coaching was implemented (e.g., community culture as well as school ethos and school priorities) also were important for all outcomes. The alignment of project driver mechanisms with community mechanisms was important for the way in which service delivery was adopted. Job–embedded coaching is an effective method of professional development and its success is greater when a congruency in beliefs, priorities and culture exists in collaborative partnerships. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / As research about childhood disability increases, teachers are becoming more aware that the difficulties students experience at school may be part of an underlying health–related or developmental problem. Teachers attend professional development workshops to learn new skills; yet applying those skills in the classroom is an ongoing challenge. Daily practice and long-term training are more effective ways to develop teaching skills. One way of achieving this is through job-embedded coaching. Job–embedded coaching involves an expert (in this case an expert on disability) who coaches the teacher in the classroom during classroom time about different teaching techniques that will include and benefit all students. This research describes how two separate Ontario research teams (one health-based and one education-based) used job–embedded coaching to improve teachers’ abilities to teach students with a variety of learning needs. In one project, an occupational therapist acted as the job–embedded coach, while in the other project, the coach was a teacher with training in special education. This research compared both projects to learn more about what made coaching work, for whom it worked for, how it worked, and why it worked. The findings of this research showed that reasons beyond coaching alone were responsible for its success. The approach, perspectives, and culture coaches brought to the schools were important and were influenced by the environments to which the research teams belonged. The alignment between coaches’ approaches and culture and the school’s culture and vision was important to the success of coaching as well as to teacher, coach, and student outcomes. Job–embedded coaching as a form of professional development does work and can be improved in the school settings with a shared understanding about students with complex learning needs.

This diploma thesis deals with the issue of inclusion of children with autism in pre-school education. It describes the concept of autism and its specificities, which can be significantly manifested in the inclusion of children in joint education up to the age of six. It points to the potential pitfalls that can arise in education and training. It explains concepts related to autistic spectrum disorders and discusses in detail the triad of impairments and related issues based on expert opinions. The thesis also shows different approaches and proven procedures for working with children with autism not only in kindergarten, but also for practice in the family. It describes different cognitive styles and other specifics that may arise in connection with autistic spectrum disorders and have a major impact on the child and his surroundings. It also includes personal examples from practice that illustrate the complexity and diversity of working with children with autistic spectrum disorder in kindergarten. In the second part of this work a case study is described, which can also serve as an example of good practice. It describes the class attended by two boys with autism. Part of the case study and a description of the climate detection program in the classroom designed for preschool children. This is...

Submitted by CAMILA PEREIRA DE CAMARGO (camilapcamargo@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-12-05T00:56:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação-final.pdf: 1982320 bytes, checksum: 01673839b4ff123da826c4de380ae2f4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Felipe Augusto Arakaki (arakaki@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-12-07T10:58:41Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 camargo_cp_me_bauru.pdf: 1982320 bytes, checksum: 01673839b4ff123da826c4de380ae2f4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-07T10:58:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 camargo_cp_me_bauru.pdf: 1982320 bytes, checksum: 01673839b4ff123da826c4de380ae2f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho apresenta uma análise sobre as Representações Sociais (RS) que licenciandos-bolsistas de um projeto Pibid-Química possuem acerca de aspectos da Educação Especial e da Educação Inclusiva, como conceitos que caracterizam um aluno com Necessidades Educacionais Especiais, sobre o processo de inclusão e o papel dos professores de Química para atuar com estes alunos. Os dados foram constituídos através de entrevistas individuais com 24 licenciandos-bolsistas e as análises foram fomentadas por meio de discussões feitas com dez bolsistas em um Grupo Focal, ambos registrados com gravador de voz. Com caráter qualitativo e utilizando a Análise de Conteúdo foram elaboradas três grandes categorias que representam os objetivos deste trabalho, e as subcategorias presentes em cada uma foram analisadas de acordo com a Teoria do Núcleo Central, de forma, a saber, quais conceitos se encontram no sistema central ou no sistema periférico das RS desses futuros professores. Considerando que há um déficit na formação de professores de Química para atuar com alunos que possuam alguma deficiência, transtorno global de desenvolvimento ou super habilidades/superdotação, o Pibid se torna um importante processo formativo e experiencial, embora tenha sido observado que conceitos, que seriam desejáveis estar no Núcleo Central do RS de futuros professores, ainda estão nos sistemas periféricos dos mesmos. Assim, conclui-se sobre a urgência de modificações na formação acadêmica de professores voltada para o processo inclusivo e na valorização do projeto Pibid, que se apresenta como uma experiência significante, mas que necessita ser aliada à um melhor preparo para a realidade encontrada dentro das salas de aula da Educação Básica do país. / This work presents an analysis about Social Representations (SR) that scholarship holders of a Pibid-Química Project have about aspects of Special Education and Inclusion in Education, such as concepts that characterize a student with Special Educational Needs, the process of inclusion and the role of Chemistry teachers to work with these students. Data were collected through individual interviews with 24 scholarship holders and the analyzes were fomented over discussions with ten of them in a Focus Group, both registered with voice recorder. Three major categories were elaborated with qualitative character and using the Content Analysis that represent the objective of this work, and its subcategories present in each one were analyzed according to the Central Nucleus Theory, in a way, namely, which concepts are in the central system or in the peripheral system of the SR of these future teachers. Considering that there is a deficit in the training of Chemistry teachers to work with students who have some disability, pervasive developmental disorder or intellectual abilities/gifted, Pibid becomes an important formative and experiential process, although it has been observed that concepts, which would be desirable to be in the Central Nucleus of the RS of future teachers, still are in their peripheral systems. Therefore, it is concluded on the urgency of modifications in the academic formation of teachers focused on the inclusion process and in the appreciation of Pibid project, which presents itself as a significant experience, but that needs to be associated to a better preparation to the reality found in the classrooms of the Basic Education in the country.

Dissertation (Magister Educationis(Education Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2010 / The Policy Document, Education White Paper 6 (Department of Education, 2001) states that all learners irrespective of their barriers to learning and development, have a right to be educated in ordinary schools, together with their peers. The inclusion of learners who are deaf/hearing impaired in mainstream Further Education and Training (FET) classrooms means that these learners are no longer being taught by special educators who are trained to cater for their special needs. In this study the learners are taught in regular classrooms by non-special education subject teachers who have had no formal training in how to teach learners with special needs specifically learners who are deaf/hearing impaired. A qualitative exploratory design with multiple methods for data collection (questionnaires, informal discussions, nonparticipant classroom observations and video footage) was employed in this study. A non-random purposive sampling which consisted of three non-special education subject teachers who teach two learners who are deaf/hearing impaired in the Further Education and Training phase at two mainstream educational institutions participated in the research. The aim of this study was to explore the kind of strategies these teachers use when they mediate learning in classrooms where there are deaf/hearing impaired learners. The study has indicated that while the educators might express a lack of confidence in their abilities, they do cater for the needs of deaf/hearing impaired learners who experience barriers to learning albeit in different ways.

"Family and school cooperation in child integration / inclusion" identifies the quality of cooperation between primary schools and families of children with special educational needs and its impact on the perception of integration or inclusion. It examines the differences in attitudes towards to l educational needs in primary schools in the certain wiev of disadvantaged children teachers'care, assistants and parents on integration and inclusion in general and in specific cases and aspects of school and family disadvantaged children. According to the current trend, parents can decide about education of their child with specific needs in an ordinary primary school with increased teacherścare, possibly with the support of a teaching assistant, usually according to a prepared individual curriculum because pupils with special educational need have to get individual speed, knowledge and skills often do not have the same level like other students in the classroom. Quality of special care is highly influenced by cooperation among teachers, assistants and parents.

"Family and school cooperation in child integration / inclusion" identifies the quality of cooperation between primary schools and families of children with special educational needs and its impact on the perception of integration or inclusion. It examines the differences in attitudes towards to l educational needs in primary schools in the certain wiev of disadvantaged children teachers'care, assistants and parents on integration and inclusion in general and in specific cases and aspects of school and family disadvantaged children. According to the current trend, parents can decide about education of their child with specific needs in an ordinary primary school with increased teacherścare, possibly with the support of a teaching assistant, usually according to a prepared individual curriculum because pupils with special educational need have to get individual speed, knowledge and skills often do not have the same level like other students in the classroom. Quality of special care is highly influenced by cooperation among teachers, assistants and parents.

the diploma thesis Dominika Kny The diploma thesis characterizes the education of pupils at a common elementary school with an emphasis on the joint education. Inclusion is in legislation and presented with regard to the historical development and approach to the education of people with disabilities. The current inclusive education is also characterized by the support measures provided, of which the teaching assistant appears to be the key support. The condition for this profession is a certain education, at the same time it carries with it certain duties and obligations. Related to this is the possibility of further development of acquired knowledge usable in the field. Personality qualification is an integral part of the entitlement to perform this job. The content of the work is presented with regard to the specifics of the included pupil, it differs according to the needs of particular individual. Qualitative research based on observations and interviews with a pre-prepared scheme of open- ended questions aims to find out the view od teaching assistents on inclusive education at a elementary school in Prague. The findings are also presented by respondents'suggestions to support successful inclusive joint education. In general, the experience of assistants confirms successful inclusive...