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Locke, Jill; Anderson, Ariana; Frederick, Lindsay; Kasari, Connie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
This study used social network analysis to evaluate whether sex heterophily, the degree to which peers are different in sex, between 126 children with autism (ages 5-12 years) and their peers affected social network connectivity. Results indicate that: (1) the quantity and sex of friends were more important in predicting social network…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Elementary School Students
Papaioannou, Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation study reports on an IRB-approved qualitative study of ten students who took class-assigned writing and moved it beyond the curriculum, I examine the curricular and extracurricular contexts that drove students to voluntarily develop projects that involve writing. The findings I share in this dissertation are based on interviews…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Assignments, Self Concept, Goal Orientation
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Özyazici, Kadriye; Kanak, Mehmet – Research in Pedagogy, 2020
Objectives: Adolescents endeavor to meet their social needs, to be accepted and to develop close friendship relationships. However, quality and close relationships may not always be possible. Identity development may be affected if adolescents cannot be included in social groups and cannot establish quality friendship relationships. This can be…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Rejection (Psychology), Friendship, High School Students
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Poteat, V. Paul; Calzo, Jerel P.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Lipkin, Arthur; Ceccolini, Christopher J.; Rosenbach, Sarah B.; O'Brien, Michael D.; Marx, Robert A.; Murchison, Gabriel R.; Burson, Esther – Child Development, 2020
Extracurricular groups can promote healthy development, yet the literature has given limited attention to indirect associations between extracurricular involvement and mental health or to sexual and gender minority youth. Among 580 youth (M[subscript age] = 15.59, range = 10-20 years) and adult advisors in 38 Gender-Sexuality Alliances (GSAs),…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Social Support Groups, Extracurricular Activities, Predictor Variables
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Boldermo, Sidsel – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2020
With the aim of developing new knowledge on inclusive practices for young children in early childhood education, the following research question was explored: what characterises young children's negotiations of belonging and togetherness in a diverse peer group in kindergarten? Data from field work in a young children's group in a multicultural…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Peer Groups, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
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Read, Barbara; Burke, Penny Jane; Crozier, Gill – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
Whilst most social and educational research on friendship focuses on children at school, it remains a crucially important factor for students in higher education -- and can play a key role in the maintenance, exacerbation or subversion of dominant forms of social inequalities. This paper explores the complexities of such dynamics in relation to…
Descriptors: Friendship, Social Life, Campuses, Foreign Countries
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Tanrikulu, Ibrahim – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This study examined prevalence, types, bully and victim characteristics, times and places bullying occur, relationship between class size and bullying, and relationship between teachers' level of education and preschool bullying. Participants were a convenience sample of 246 Turkish preschool teachers working with children between 36 and 72…
Descriptors: Incidence, Bullying, Victims, Class Size
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Peceguina, Maria Inês Duarte; Silva, Inês Santiago Gomes Da; Correia, Nadine Elisabete Fernandes Gomes; Fialho, Ana Margarida Batista; Aguiar, Cecília Do Rosário Da Mota – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings: Traditional peer sociometric nominations, even at early ages, are not replaceable by teachers' classifications of children's sociometric popularity. The association between reports from the two sources, although not independent, was weak, with teachers perceiving more children as popular and fewer children as rejected. Teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Preschool Children, Peer Acceptance
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Bardach, Lisa; Graf, Daniel; Yanagida, Takuya; Kollmayer, Marlene; Spiel, Christiane; Lüftenegger, Marko – Journal of School Violence, 2020
This study investigated the gender-specific effects of social achievement goals -- i.e., social development goals, social demonstration approach goals, and social demonstration avoid goals -- on bullying perpetration in a sample of 788 adolescents (53.3% girls), taking into account the mediating role of sense of belonging and non-inclusive group…
Descriptors: Bullying, Intervention, Gender Differences, Peer Acceptance
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Robinson, Sally; Hill, Malcolm; Fisher, Karen R.; Graham, Anne – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
In recent policies, it is assumed that communities welcome the inclusion of young people with intellectual disability. However, little is known about perspectives of young people themselves. This article reports on research that sought to address this gap. Young people with intellectual disability living in three Australian small town communities…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Social Bias, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Community Characteristics
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Lam, Shui-fong; Shum, Kathy Kar-man; Chan, Winnie Wai Lan; Tsoi, Emily Wing See – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Schools around the world are increasingly diverse in ethnicity. Given the importance of peer acceptance in children's well-being and development, it is a pressing concern for educators to promote intergroup acceptance in schools. Aims: First, to examine the developmental trends of acceptance of outgroup members in both the ethnic…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Mustafina, Aigul; Amitov, Sultankozha; Ma, Joyce Lai-Chong – SAGE Open, 2022
This study investigated both the risk factors and the protective factors against peer rejection at multiple levels in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and their typically developing peers. Using standard sociometric procedure, we studied the peer rejection of 108 children with ADHD (aged 7 to 12) and their classmates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Control Groups
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Siperstein, Gary N.; McDowell, Emily D.; Jacobs, Holly E.; Stokes, Jeffrey E.; Cahn, Andrea L. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2019
The present study examined how a multicomponent intervention embedded in a high school's extracurricular framework impacts students' acceptance of peers with intellectual disability (ID). Data were collected from eight high schools, three of which implemented the Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools (UCS) program involving inclusive sports,…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, High School Students, Students with Disabilities, Peer Acceptance
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Underhill, Jill Cornelius; Ledford, Victoria; Adams, Hillary – Communication Education, 2019
College students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face unique social barriers and are often stigmatized by their peers. Communication and instruction researchers are uniquely positioned to foster an inclusive communication climate in the classroom that minimizes stigma and promotes peer acceptance. To do so, instructors must understand how…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Social Bias, College Students
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Edwards, Brydne M.; Cameron, Debra; King, Gillian; McPherson, Amy C. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2019
Despite the importance of students without special needs' perspectives in promoting successful social inclusion strategies in the classroom, their perspectives are not well represented in the literature. The purpose of this scoping review was to summarise the perspectives of students without special needs around the social inclusion of students…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Student Attitudes, Inclusion
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