This study was designed to assess paraeducators' duties, roles, and responsibilities and to
develop a greater understanding of how they perceive their jobs and what support they
would consider important for job improvement. The sample population was comprised of
both elementary and junior high school paraeducators, from four individual schools
within one school division in southwest Canada. Three separate focus groups were
completed, with fourteen participants in total. The study was undertaken using the
methodology of focus groups. Responses from the groups were transcribed and coded in
order to pull out the major themes found in the discussions of the duties and perceptions
by paraeducators. The results, when compared to the contemporary literature findings on
the roles of paraeducators, show many points of convergence. / x, 93 leaves ; 29 cm.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:ALU.w.uleth.ca/dspace#10133/350 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Grahn, Darlene, University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education |
| Contributors | Winzer, Margret |
| Publisher | Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2006, Education |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Relation | Thesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education) |
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