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Štemberger, Tina; Kiswarday, Vanja Riccarda – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2018
The paper is built on premises that teachers' attitude is one of the most important factors of implementing inclusive education and it focuses on preschool and primary school teachers' attitudes towards inclusive education. The purpose of the study was to establish what attitude Slovenian preschool and primary school teachers hold towards…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Inclusion, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Smith, Emily; Larwin, Karen H. – Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership, 2021
The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions K-12 principals and teachers have of inclusive education in a school district in western Pennsylvania school district. The dependent variables are the teachers' and principals' perceptions of inclusion and the independent variables are years of educational experience, extent of special…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Students with Disabilities
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Diachenko, Olga M. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2011
The role of the imagination in adult thinking is to go beyond reality and to express generalised laws. The researcher's job is to specify the cultural tools that preschool children use in the development of their imagination. Previous research has identified two main stages in the development of imagination up until the age of six, a third stage…
Descriptors: Imagination, Preschool Children, Social Change, Cultural Influences
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Maxwell, Bruce; DesRoches, Sarah – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2010
This chapter identifies three common pitfalls in the use of the concept of empathy in formal social-emotional learning interventions: (1) not distinguishing between affective and cognitive empathy ("equivocation"); (2) overestimating the role of the imagination in empathizing ("Piaget's fallacy"); and (3) not accommodating the developmental and…
Descriptors: Empathy, Educational Environment, Cognitive Processes, Socialization
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Albiero, Paolo; Matricardi, Giada; Speltri, Daniela; Toso, Diana – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
The present study examined the validity of the Basic Empathy Scale (BES) [Jolliffe, D., & Farrington, D. P. (2006a). Development and validation of the Basic Empathy Scale. "Journal of Adolescence," 29, 589-611; Jolliffe, D., & Farrington, D. P. (2006b). Examining the relationship between low empathy and bullying. "Aggressive…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, Factor Structure, Adolescents
Gifford, Sue – Mathematics Teaching, 2003
Nursery education, particularly in terms of mathematics, has come a long way in a short time. But what principles or knowledge can now be used to decide what is or is not good practice? It therefore seems timely to look at theory and research concerning teaching mathematics to young children, to try and establish some principles and guidance as to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Numeracy, Preschool Children