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Gevorgianiene, Violeta; Sumskiene, Egle – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
This article focuses on the situation of persons with intellectual disabilities in the developing post-Soviet countries and aims to review the extent to which services offered to them promote values of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and empower these persons to lead fulfilling lives. Interviews with experts revealed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, World History, Educational History
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Çetin, Baris – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2015
The aim of this study is to determine if approaches to learning and academic motivation together predict grade point averages (GPAs) of students who study at Primary School Education and Preschool Education in Turkey and of students who study at Early Childhood Education in the US. The first group of participants included 166 third- and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, College Students, Academic Achievement
Sacks, Lynne; Ruzzi, Betsy Brown – National Center on Education and the Economy (NJ1), 2005
Early childhood education has received an increasing amount of attention in the last two decades in the United States and in other countries. There is now a strong consensus on the many benefits of preschool. Studies have shown that attending a high-quality preschool program not only increases children's readiness for kindergarten, but also causes…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Educational Practices