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Soto-Chodiman, Rebecca; Pooley, Julie Ann; Cohen, Lynne; Taylor, Myra Frances – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2012
The shift to inclusive education within Australia has resulted in increasing numbers of students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) being placed in mainstream educational settings. This move has created new demands on teachers who are not necessarily trained to meet the challenge. Therefore, the present study aimed to develop an understanding of…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Autism, Foreign Countries, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Mills, Kathy A.; Exley, Beryl – Written Communication, 2014
Theorists of multiliteracies, social semiotics, and the New Literacy Studies have drawn attention to the potential changing nature of writing and literacy in the context of networked communications. This article reports findings from a design-based research project in Year 4 classrooms (students aged 8.5-10 years) in a low socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Multiple Literacies, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Somerville, Margaret; Green, Monica – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
The development of sustainability literate teachers has been identified as a key challenge for the implementation of education for sustainability in Australian schools (Skamp, 2010) and elsewhere (Nolet, 2009). This paper reports on the first year of a participatory action research project that investigates the learning of school teachers, teacher…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Foreign Countries, Participatory Research, Action Research