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Duggan Bio, Martine – Education 3-13, 2017
This article reports on a doctoral case study of how an English integrated nursery school and children's centre fulfils its legal duty to promote community cohesion. The provocation for the enquiry derives from the author's growing unease over the perceived limitations of a target-driven culture currently pervading English schools. A case is made…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Nursery Schools, Educational Environment
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Akdag, Zeynep; Haser, Çigdem – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate Turkish early childhood education teachers' perception of inclusion before they started their teaching profession and to explore their experiences with the children with disabilities in their first year of teaching. Sixteen Turkish pre-service teachers were first interviewed when they completed the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Inclusion, Mainstreaming
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Hojnoski, Robin; Polignano, Joy; Columba, Helen Lynn – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: Shared book reading provides opportunities for adults to engage in literacy-related interactions with children in meaningful ways. Research has examined various dimensions of adult and child behavior during shared book-reading interactions with some focus on how book type affects the reading experience. Little research, however,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Reading Aloud to Others
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Irvin, Dwight W.; Boyd, Brian A.; Odom, Samuel L. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2015
Difficulty with social competence is a core deficit of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The aim of this study was to examine the link between adult talk and the socially competent behavior displayed by preschoolers with ASD concurrently and over time. A modified version of Kontos's Teacher Talk classification was used to code videos of 73 children…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Interpersonal Competence, Student Behavior
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Hundert, Joel; Rowe, Sarah; Harrison, Erin – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2014
One of the challenges in supporting young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in inclusive classrooms is the generalization of improved social behaviors. Using a multiple-baseline design across participants, this study examined the generalized effects of social script training alone and combined with peer buddies on the interactive play…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Social Development, Scripts
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Stanton-Chapman, Tina L.; Brown, Tiara S. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2015
The current study evaluated the play behaviors of children with disabilities (e.g., developmental delays, specific language impairment) who participated in a social communication intervention targeting skills such as initiations, responses, name use, proximity, and turn-taking. Three children who were enrolled in an inclusive classroom met the…
Descriptors: Play, Disabilities, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence