Methodologies for the inclusive education of students with severe visual impairment or blindness / Metodologías que garantizan la inclusión educativa de estudiantes con discapacidad visual grave o ceguera     

Isabel Serrano  Ascensión Palomares  Catherine Kostich 《Cultura y Educación》2016,28(2):359-377

The aim of this paper is to present the educational experiences that have been implemented in the community of Madrid (Spain) with students with severe visual impairment or blindness. We highlight why and how the new educational policies being implemented have achieved the genuine inclusion of these students in line with European educational objectives. The study was carried out during the academic years 2010–11 to 2015–16. We conclude that the educational inclusion of students with visual impairment becomes a reality upon the effective participation of two specialized teams, namely, the educational psychologists for young children (divided in stages from zero to three years and from four to 12 years of age) and the educational specialists in visually impaired children. This constitutes a prime example that can be extended to other contexts and other disabilities. It becomes evident that, to be effective, inclusive education requires a joint and coordinated response from all professionals involved in the education process.  相似文献   

Parental substance abuse as a predictor of child maltreatment re-reports   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Isabel Wolock  Stephen Magura 《Child abuse & neglect》1996,20(12):1183-1193

This longitudinal study of child abuse and neglect cases closed after investigation examined the impact of parental substance abuse on family functioning and on subsequent referrals to child protective services. The findings support the hypothesis that parental substance abuse would have a negative impact on family functioning, which, in turn, would result in a higher rate of re-reports. As expected, substance abuse also had a direct impact on re-reports. It is critical that the child welfare system recognize and respond to parental substance abuse problems in these families through expanded and improved voluntary, and perhaps, mandatory services.  相似文献   

The Bologna process and the search for excellence: between rhetoric and reality,the emotional reactions of teachers     

Sara Bahia  Isabel P. Freire  Maria Teresa Estrela  Anabela Amaral  José António Espírito Santo 《Teaching in Higher Education》2017,22(4):467-482

ABSTRACT

There has been an overall change in higher education towards the achievement of outstanding patterns of quality and excellence that assure competitiveness at a global scale. Teachers feel the pressure of official regulations for achieving quality and excellence, based on questionable concepts of quality that do not take into account the experience and beliefs of teachers and lead to emotional states that may promote or hinder adjustment to changes.

The present study used a categorical content analysis to capture the emotions that twelve university teachers associate with the changes experienced and with the pursuit of quality emphasized in Portugal by the Bologna Process. The results show that participants revealed mixed emotions regarding change. Students elicit mostly positive emotions, whereas bureaucracy, marketization and career changes generate negative emotions that impede the quest for quality, although in a minority of participants they prompt resilience that stimulates engagement in quality.  相似文献   

The Comtesse de Genlis’ <Emphasis Type="Italic">Théâtre à l’usage des jeunes personnes</Emphasis> (1779–1780): Educating for Order and Prejudice in Pre-revolutionary France     

Isabel Pinto 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2017,48(3):214-229

This essay explores the educational contribution of the Comtesse de Genlis’ Théâtre à l'usage des jeunes personnes [Theatre of Education] (1792/1779–1780), a four-volume collection of closet drama, in light of the social, political and cultural shifts occurring in France in the period prior to the French Revolution. In particular, in two plays from Theatre of Education, La Marchande de Modes [The Milliner] and Le Libraire [The Bookseller], Genlis depicts the bourgeoisie’s proper behaviour toward the aristocracy and its natural place in the world. Thus both plays exemplify the educational and the political role of Genlis, who attempts to tame the bourgeoisie through the twofold argument of proper education and effective parenthood, so as to keep alive the social order of the ancien régime.  相似文献   

The structuration of comparative discourse and the imagination of knowledge spaces: Portugal,the ‘South of Europe’, and the ‘South below’     

Ana Isabel Madeira 《比较教育学》2018,54(4):459-489

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Using online tools in participatory research with adolescents to promote civic engagement and environmental mobilization: the WaterCircle (WC) project     

Rita Ruivo Marques  Carla Malafaia  Joaquim L. Faria  Isabel Menezes 《Environmental Education Research》2020,26(7):1043-1059

Abstract

The WaterCircle (WC) project was implemented in a school, with young adolescents, to address environmental problems. Framed in a participatory research (PR) approach, this school-and-community based intervention includes the use of online tools through which environmental problems in the community are discussed within and by a group of students. Using a quasi-experimental design, with intervention and control groups, the present study involved 361 young adolescents, in grades 7 to 9, from a public school in the northern region of Portugal. Mixed methods were used for data collection and analysis, namely based on questionnaires administered in the pre- and post-test moments, as well as on students’ discourses produced in the classroom during planned activities. Statistically significant changes on self-efficacy were found for the experimental group, suggesting that the intervention program has the potential to raise young people’s empowerment regarding environmental issues. The WC program seems to foster students’ awareness of the socio-political dimensions of environmental problems, since they were able to identify different actors in the community who should be involved in the proposed solutions. Longer-term intervention is required to foster the impact of the PR on the students’ experience.  相似文献   

The Effectiveness of Concept Maps in Teaching Physics Concepts Applied to Engineering Education: Experimental Comparison of the Amount of Learning Achieved With and Without Concept Maps     

Guadalupe Martínez  Ángel Luis Pérez  María Isabel Suero  Pedro J. Pardo 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2013,22(2):204-214

A study was conducted to quantify the effectiveness of concept maps in learning physics in engineering degrees. The following research question was posed: What was the difference in learning results from the use of concept maps to study a particular topic in an engineering course? The study design was quasi-experimental and used a post-test as a measuring instrument. The sample included 114 university students from the School of Industrial Engineering who were divided into two equivalent homogeneous groups of 57 students each. The amount of learning attained by the students in each group was compared, with the independent variable being the teaching method; the experimental group (E.G.) used concept maps, while the control group (C.G.) did not. We performed a crossover study with the two groups of students, with one group acting as the E.G. for the topic of optical fibers and as the C.G. for the topic of the fundamental particles of matter and vice versa for the other group. For each of the two topics studied, the evaluation instrument was a test of 100 dichotomous items. The resulting data were subjected to a comparative statistical analysis, which revealed a significant difference in the amount of learning attained by the E.G. students as compared with the C.G. students. The results allow us to state that for the use of concept maps, the average increment in the E.G. students’ learning was greater than 19 percentage points.  相似文献   

The Internet Serving Personal Communication     

Isabel Correia 《Educational Media International》2013,50(4):246-248

Abstract

This article is the text of the presentation made by Isabel Correia from the Macau Territorial Commission for the Commemoration of the Portugese Discoveries based in Macau. It describes the programme developed by the Commission for schools in Macau and Portugal working together via the Internet on projects seeking to put them in touch with each other and to learn about each other's country.  相似文献   

Gathering the views of children and young people to inform practice in a psychological service     

Shona Alexander  Neil Brown  Kait Farmer  Jenny Fraser‐Smith  Kirstie McClatchey  Vibeke McKeown  Ali Sangster  Isabel Shaver  Jenny Templeton 《Support for Learning》2014,29(4):359-369

This paper describes the process employed by a psychological service to gather the views of children and young people using guided discussion groups and questionnaires. Pupils in the guided discussion groups were asked to identify issues that affect them and how adults could help. This information was analysed using thematic analysis. Seven themes were identified as issues: managing feelings; friendships; behaviour; specific difficulties that can affect learning; not being accepted; bullying; and ‘other important issues’, including bereavement and family difficulties. In relation to each of these themed issues, several sub‐themes regarding how adults could help were collated. Questionnaire data was analysed using inferential statistics. The questionnaire rated the importance of help from adults in the areas of learning, friendships and feelings. Results suggested that these were equally important to primary‐aged pupils. Findings were used to contribute to the development plan and shape future practice.  相似文献   

Discusión de dilemas morales y desarrollo progresivo del juicio moral     

Isabel Carrillo 《Cultura y Educación》2013,25(15):55-62

La técnica de discusión de dilemas se presenta en el marco de las teorías cognitivo-evolutivas, haciendo referencia a la teoría de los estadios morales que establece Kohlberg. Se presenta un dilema dirigido en especial a los alumnos del tercer nivel de la Educación Primaria, ofreciendo, asimismo, prototipos de actividades para otros tramos educativos.  相似文献