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Reddington, Sarah; Price, Deborah – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2017
This paper examines how two men with autism spectrum (AS) experience educational spaces having attended public school in Nova Scotia, Canada. Smooth and striated space is mobilised as the main conceptual framework to account for the men's affectivities when experiencing the educational terrain. The central aim when applying smooth and striated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Semi Structured Interviews
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Pantaleo, Sylvia; Walker, Georgette – Journal of Children's Literature, 2017
In this article, the authors focus on children's and adults' analyses and interpretations of the artwork and design of Peter Brown's "Mr. Tiger Goes Wild." Sipe (2008b) noted how the body of research on "children's visual meaning making from picturebooks" would benefit from "more studies combining careful and theoretically…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Visual Stimuli, Childrens Literature, Color
Corbett, Michael – Canadian Journal of Education, 2014
The field of rural education has not been significantly developed in Canada and the marginal status of the rural itself has contributed to this peripheral status. The emergence of geography and spatial thinking generally in social theory and in educational thought represents an opportunity to re-evaluate the importance of space and place in…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Geography, Spatial Ability, Educational Theories
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Guerard, Katherine; Tremblay, Sebastien – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
The authors revisited evidence in favor of modularity and of functional equivalence between the processing of verbal and spatial information in short-term memory. This was done by investigating the patterns of intrusions, omissions, transpositions, and fill-ins in verbal and spatial serial recall and order reconstruction tasks under control,…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Spatial Ability, Verbal Stimuli
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Gropper, Rachel J.; Tannock, Rosemary – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2009
Objective: To investigate working memory (WM), academic achievement, and their relationship in university students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Method: Participants were university students with previously confirmed diagnoses of ADHD (n = 16) and normal control (NC) students (n = 30). Participants completed 3…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Short Term Memory
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Schmuckler, Mark A.; Jewell, Stephanie – Infancy, 2007
This study examined 6-month-old infants' abilities to use the visual information provided by simulated self-movement through the world, and movement of an object through the world, for spatial orientation. Infants were habituated to a visual display in which they saw a toy hidden, followed by either rotation of the point of observation through the…
Descriptors: Infants, Toys, Spatial Ability, Motion