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Romero, Rachel – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2023
In this paper, I examine an implementation of "gracious space" and its influence on student learning. "Gracious space" is a facilitation model for group meaning-making that promotes vulnerability and connectedness, "a spirit and a setting where we invite the 'stranger' and embrace 'learning in public'". The course in…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Risk, Social Emotional Learning, Undergraduate Students
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Ruitenberg, Claudia W. – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2017
This paper addresses educators' responsibility for the discourse (including their own and others') that circulates in educational settings. This issue tends to arise especially with hurtful language and other discursive acts that have negative effects, and that require an apology, correction, or some other kind of remedial discourse. The paper…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Interpersonal Communication, Language Usage, Teacher Responsibility
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Boudreau, Ainsley M.; Corkum, Penny; Smith, Isabel M. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2019
Few effective school-based interventions that target social-communication skills are available for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The growing gap between interventions designed for use in research settings and the school environment is concerning for researchers and clinicians alike. Research methods that incorporate relevant…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Early Intervention
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Rattenborg, Karen; MacPhee, David; Walker, Aimée Kleisner; Miller-Heyl, Jan – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: This study examined correlates of parents' reported school engagement in an ethnically diverse, rural sample (N = 346) of parents and teachers in kindergarten through Grade 2. Of particular interest were role expectations and family-school relationships in American Indian families, who historically have been marginalized by…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Rural Schools, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Börü, Nese – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2018
School management gets use of human and material resources to ensure equality of opportunity in education. Financial and information resources as well as staff of the schools may be inadequate. The schools with a wealthy environment can offer rich programs and educational activities to their students, while others aim to apply only basic academic…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, High Schools
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Dennis, Lindsay R.; Stockall, Nancy – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
Social competence and social communication development can be concurrently supported through intentional thought and planning on the part of the early childhood special educator. In this article, we present suggestions for how teachers can effectively plan for and implement interventions to support these two areas, all within the context of play.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Play, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Communication
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Bowman, Richard F. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2015
Teaching today remains the most individualistic of all the professions, with educators characteristically operating in a highly fragmented world of "their" courses, "their" skills, and "their" students. Learning will occur in the classrooms of the future through a sustainable set of complementary capabilities:…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods, Educational Environment
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Schaefer, John M.; Cannella-Malone, Helen; Brock, Matthew E. – Remedial and Special Education, 2018
Peer support arrangements are an evidence-based practice for increasing interactions between students with severe disabilities and their peers in general education classrooms, but it is unclear how interactions vary across instructional formats or generalize outside the classroom. In this single-case design study, we tested the efficacy of peer…
Descriptors: Severe Disabilities, Peer Influence, Educational Environment, Intellectual Disability
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Cronin, Lorcan Donal; Allen, Justine; Mulvenna, Claire; Russell, Paul – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2018
Background: Both education policies and curriculum documents identify the personal development of students as a key objective of modern education. Physical education (PE) in particular has been cited as a subject that can promote students' life skills development and psychological well-being. However, little research has investigated the processes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Physical Education, Well Being
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Macuch, Regiane da Silva; Vaz, Henrique Malheiro – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2015
This article reports results of an analysis of the relationship of young people in school, and their individual and group attitudes based on sociometric theory. This study adopted a mixed methodological approach with an intervention conducted with 60 youths over 3 years in Portugal and was based on the question "Is sociometry capable of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Sociometric Techniques, Mixed Methods Research, Intervention
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Akcaoglu, Mete; Lee, Eunbae – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
Social presence is difficult to achieve, but an imperative component of online learning. In this study, we investigated the effect of group size on students' perceptions of social presence in two graduate-level online courses, comparing small group versus whole class discussions. Our results indicated that when in small group discussions, students…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Small Group Instruction
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Lilley, Rozanna – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2015
This article investigates the experiences of students diagnosed with autism who change schools during the early primary years in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Using the narratives of eight mothers, the article documents the circumstances leading to school change, usually towards more segregated provision. Mothers highlighted the difficulty of…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Student Mobility
Brown, Rachelle – Online Submission, 2016
Students have social and personal needs to fulfill and communicate these needs in different ways. This annotated bibliographic review examined communication studies to provide educators of diverse classrooms with ideas to build an environment that contributes to student well-being. Participants in the studies ranged in age, ability, and cultural…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication Research, Student Diversity, Student Needs
Abdulalim, Latif – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study examined programming practices that have identified in the research as critical for school success for students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Secondary purposes of the study were to identify the extent to which these practices were used and to examine student social/emotional and academic outcome data in a public day…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Public Schools, Day Schools
Porterfield, Kitty; Carnes, Meg – Principal, 2010
People have known principals who are intellectual giants on issues of instruction and who have a great love of children but who stumble in leadership roles because they either do not or cannot communicate what they know. Good communication skills are among the most important tools a leader carries in his or her toolbox. Not only does good…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Communication Skills, Mass Media Role, Mass Media Use
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