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Mundy, Peter, Ed.; Mastergeorge, Ann, Ed. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2012
Educational Interventions for Students with Autism offers educators a vital resource for understanding and working with autistic students. Written by nationally acclaimed experts in the field and published in collaboration with the world-renowned UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute, the book aims to deepen educators' appreciation of the challenges…
Descriptors: Mainstreaming, Teacher Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Inclusion
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Lake, David – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2008
Outside its heavily-populated south-eastern corner, Queensland is a huge administrative area with many small, remote communities that can be separated by hundreds of kilometres of dirt road, or, in other areas, not accessible by road. In this study, parents, students and teachers in nine schools from rural and regional Queensland were interviewed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Educational Innovation, Rural Schools
Hargreaves, Andy; Fullan, Michael – 1998
Accomplishing significant improvement in teaching and learning requires strong, open, and interactive relationships between schools and the community. Chapter 1, "What's Out There," explores the vital role of teacher morale in successful reforms and argues that teachers and schools should actively connect, in more effective ways, with…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Sloan, Margaret Hall – Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM), 2006
The purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which social, political, and economic factors impact the teaching and learning of mathematics in a small rural school in Georgia. Focusing on a charter school that seeks to educate approximately 275 pre-K through 12th grade students, the study was intended to give voice to the residents of the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Rural Schools, Social Influences, Political Influences
Werner, David – 1987
This heavily illustrated volume is a reference book intended to bring together basic information to help community health workers, rehabilitation workers, and families in rural areas of developing countries meet the needs of village children with a wide range of disabilities. Part 1, "Working with the Child and Family," reviews the prevention of…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adolescents, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Attitude Change