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Benton, Laura; Johnson, Hilary – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2014
In the past technology products created to overcome accessibility and usability issues experienced by individuals with special needs have also resulted in greater usability for the wider population. Technology is increasingly being seen as a key component within the education of children with special needs and recently researchers have developed…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Childhood Needs
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Kiel, L. Douglas – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2014
Socio-techno-cultural reality, in the current historical era, evolves at a faster rate than do human brain or human institutions. This reality creates a "complexity gap" that reduces human and institutional capacities to adapt to the challenges of late modernity. New insights from the neurosciences may help to reduce the complexity gap.…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Evolution, Biology, Psychology
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Sagen, Line Melboe; Ytterhus, Borgunn – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2014
This article examines how the self-determination of pupils with intellectual disabilities is practised in secondary school in Norway and discusses possible challenges connected to this practice. The argumentation builds on the fieldwork of qualitative interviews (N?=?55) and participant observations in schools in Norway (pupils 13-16?years old).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Determination, Mental Retardation, Secondary School Students
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Shepherd, Craig E.; Bolliger, Doris U. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2014
Four years ago, two online graduate programs at a mid-size university in the western United States implemented ePortfolios to foster communication and connectedness among students and faculty, develop community that extends beyond course boundaries, and promote professional goal formation and achievement among students. This article describes…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Online Courses, Electronic Publishing, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Martínez-Alemán, Ana M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2014
Technology's march into the college classroom continues. Generations of college and university faculty have both embraced and resisted instructional technologies such as the book, the mimeograph, the overhead projector, and hand-held calculators. Now college and university faculty are greeting the 21st century's signature…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, College Students
Lukaš, Mirko; Lenard, Ivan – Online Submission, 2014
SOS Children's Village Croatia is categorized as a children's home whose primary goal is taking care of children without an adequate parental care or parents themselves. Moreover, it aims at providing children, regardless of their racial, national or religious affiliation, with affection and love in a safe family environment. In addition, SOS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Residential Institutions, Child Care, Nongovernmental Organizations
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Elton-Chalcraft, Sally; Cammack, Paul J.; Harrison, Liz – International Journal of Special Education, 2016
Educating special educational needs (SEN) children in special schools is the norm in India but there is a growing trend towards inclusive practice. Perspectives were sought from children, their parents and teachers in Bangalore, India to investigate perceptions of effective provision for SEN children using an interpretative approach to provide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Inclusion, Case Studies
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Li, Shi – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Most scholars consider gratitude as a moral emotion, with only few seeing it as a character trait. As a result, no systematic mechanism has ever been attempted to develop gratitude in children. Given the social issue of widespread lack of gratitude in the one-child generations of China, this article attempts to outline a mechanism of parental…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Altruism, Psychological Patterns, Affective Behavior
National Academies Press, 2016
The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as "the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life." These forces and systems include economic policies, development agendas, cultural and social norms, social policies,…
Descriptors: Health Education, Barriers, Social Influences, Professional Education
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Lyons, Gordon; Cassebohm, Michele – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2012
The education of Australian students with the most severe intellectual disabilities continues to present substantial challenges to policymakers, practitioners and families. These are complex and involve philosophy and ethics generally, and curriculum assessment and pedagogy specifically. In light of the various phases of development for an…
Descriptors: Severe Mental Retardation, Ethics, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Olson, Curtis A.; Tooman, Tricia R. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2012
Skepticism exists regarding the role of continuing medical education (CME) in improving physician performance. The harshest criticism has been reserved for didactic CME. Reviews of the scientific literature on the effectiveness of CME conclude that formal or didactic modes of education have little or no impact on clinical practice. This has led…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Physicians, Professional Continuing Education, Educational Methods
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Blasco, Maribel – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2015
The article proposes an approach, broadly inspired by culturally inclusive pedagogy, to facilitate international student academic adaptation based on rendering tacit aspects of local learning cultures explicit to international full degree students, rather than adapting them. Preliminary findings are presented from a focus group-based exploratory…
Descriptors: Cultural Relevance, Teaching Methods, Foreign Students, Student Adjustment
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Yanniris, Constantinos – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2015
For the first time after decades of expansion and systematic innovative practice, environmental education in Greece faces an uncertain future as a result of the contemporary political and economic crisis. This research aims to contribute to the international exchange of good practices by focusing on the effects and functions of the Greek network…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Teacher Attitudes, Outdoor Education
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Brown, Lori A. – Journal of Education for Business, 2015
Communication competence is a leading agent in professional success and the ability most sought after by employers. Educational institutions benefit by producing students with such sought-after skills. However, there is a disconnect between skills practitioner stakeholders desire and what graduates deliver. Strengthening the value of a business…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Program Validation, Models, Educational Practices
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Zweig, Jacqueline; Stafford, Erin; Clements, Margaret; Pazzaglia, Angela M. – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2015
REL Midwest, in partnership with the Midwest Virtual Education Research Alliance, analyzed the results of a survey administered to Wisconsin Virtual School teachers about the training in which they participated related to online instruction, the challenges they encounter while teaching online, and the type of training they thought would help them…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Experience, Teacher Surveys, Training
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