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Direct linkGöransson, Kerstin; Lindqvist, Gunilla; Nilholm, Claes – Educational Research, 2015
Background: There are two occupational groups in Sweden that are expected to have significant impact on educational work related to children in need of special support. These two groups are special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs) and special education teachers. In this paper, we use the collective name "special educators" to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Role
Göransson, Kerstin; Lindqvist, Gunilla; Möllås, Gunvie; Almqvist, Lena; Nilholm, Claes – Educational Review, 2017
Special needs educators (SNEs) and their counterparts are expected to play a significant role in schools' work towards inclusive practices. Studies do, however, indicate a rather diversified picture regarding the occupational groups assigned to work with special support and their workroles, within and between different countries. In Sweden, one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education Teachers, Inclusion, Regular and Special Education Relationship
Lindqvist, Gunilla – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2013
In Sweden today, special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs) are educated at universities to help resolve educational problems related to children in need of special support at three levels, that is, the organisational level, the classroom level and the individual level. Before the education of SENCOs was created in the early 1990s, special…
Descriptors: Foreign Culture, Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Special Needs Students
Lindqvist, Gunilla; Nilholm, Claes – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
Educational leaders have a comprehensive responsibility for how preschools and schools work with children in need of special educational support. The aim of this research is to study how educational leaders (a) explain why children have problems in schools, (b) consider how preschools/schools should help children in need of special support and (c)…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students
