Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 2 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 5 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 7 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 27 |
Descriptor
Disabilities | 86 |
Social Problems | 86 |
Foreign Countries | 18 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 14 |
Public Policy | 11 |
Teaching Methods | 10 |
Educational Needs | 8 |
Females | 8 |
Children | 7 |
Justice | 7 |
Minority Groups | 7 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Location
Canada | 6 |
United States | 4 |
Florida | 3 |
Africa | 2 |
Australia | 2 |
California | 2 |
China | 2 |
Montana | 2 |
Pennsylvania | 2 |
South Africa | 2 |
Thailand | 2 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Individuals with Disabilities… | 2 |
Aid to Families with… | 1 |
Americans with Disabilities… | 1 |
Developmental Disabilities… | 1 |
Higher Education Act 1980 | 1 |
No Child Left Behind Act 2001 | 1 |
United Nations Convention on… | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
Illinois Test of… | 1 |
Texas Essential Knowledge and… | 1 |
Youth Risk Behavior Survey | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Sevki Can Atik; Mükerrem Yilmaz – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2024
This study comprehensively analyzes the effectiveness of the services provided to disabled people in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) within the legislation framework and the communication barriers experienced by these individuals. The research examines how disability affects individuals' participation in social life and how TRNC…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Communication Problems, Legislation
Karijn Aussems; Jet Isarin; Alistair Niemeijer; Christine Dedding – Educational Action Research, 2024
Participatory Action Research (PAR) brings unique ethical challenges. Scholars have developed seven ethical principles to address these challenges. So far, little has been published on how these ethical principles (are put to) work in different fields. We used the principles to evaluate our collaboration with co-researchers with developmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Participatory Research, Researchers
Ochoa, Theresa A.; Roberts, Susan R. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2021
Juvenile delinquency is a major social problem in many countries. This special series of "Intervention in School and Clinic" focuses on the intersection of youth with disabilities and the laws in the United States, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Norway, which aim to ensure the provision of educational opportunities responsive to the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, Social Problems
Whittaker, Beth M.; Thomas, Lynne M. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
The experience of COVID-19 has prompted a reckoning within both special collections and the larger library community about how we do our work. This article provides some thoughts about the "new normal" of working in the COVID-19 era. It shares some informal conversations with colleagues as well as guides to sources for further reflection.
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Library Services, Library Materials
Laki, Ildikó; Tóth, László – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2015
The legal treatment of disability affairs carries in itself an inherent contradiction due to the nature of modern society and free-market economy. On the one hand both the historically developed notions of essentialism and on the other the particular-functional definition of manhood drawing its roots from the established democratic order and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Legal Problems, Legal Responsibility, Social Problems
Barroso-Moreno, Carlos; Rayon-Rumayor, Laura; García-Vera, Antonio Bautista – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2023
Social media can contribute to an inclusive society, but they are also asymmetrical and polarised communication spaces. This requires competent teachers to build critical digital citizenship. The aim of this article is twofold: to present web scraping and text analytics as tools that define teachers' digital competences, and to investigate which…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Social Media, Spanish, English
du Plessis, Gretchen Erika – Education as Change, 2019
This article, based on theoretical reflections and empirical examples, outlines dilemmas in the social positioning of postgraduate research when students are challenged with their locations as insiders and outsiders in terms of the issues they investigate in Development Studies. Encountering the "other" and oneself in, against and beyond…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Student Research
Hernández Varona, Wilson; Gutiérrez Álvarez, Daniel Felipe – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
This paper presents a narrative inquiry study on agency development in student-teachers of an English language teacher program at a public university in the south of Colombia. Our goal was to understand how student-teachers develop agency when narratively inquiring their community by planning and conducting community-based pedagogy projects on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Teachers
Broomhead, Karen E. – Support for Learning, 2013
This study explored the perceptions of parents and teachers regarding the differential treatment or stigma experienced by pupils with challenging behaviour--more specifically, those with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD), as well as children with visible special educational needs (Down's syndrome and/or profound and multiple…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Parents, Students, Semi Structured Interviews
Chou, Chih-Chin; Chan, Fong; Chan, Jacob Yui Chung; Phillips, Brian; Ditchman, Nicole; Kaseroff, Ashley – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2013
Positive psychology is a scientific study that explores what makes life most worth living and applies psychological theory to understand the human strengths that are important for enhancing overall well-being and happiness. The rehabilitation counseling philosophy shares a similar emphasis on personal strengths and the importance of enhancing what…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Counseling, Disabilities, Psychology, Well Being
Newton, J. Stephen; Horner, Robert H.; Algozzine, Bob; Todd, Anne W.; Algozzine, Kate – Journal of School Psychology, 2012
Members of Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) teams from 34 elementary schools participated in a Team-Initiated Problem Solving (TIPS) Workshop and follow-up technical assistance. Within the context of a randomized wait-list controlled trial, team members who were the first recipients of the TIPS intervention demonstrated greater…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Social Problems, Disabilities, Integrity
Goodley, Dan – Disability & Society, 2011
This paper explores connections and tensions between psychoanalysis and disability studies. The first part of the paper considers contemporaneous engagements with the psyche by a number of disability studies writers. These scholars have remained accountable to a politicised disability studies but have pushed for critical encounters with the…
Descriptors: Well Being, Disabilities, Psychiatry, Correlation
Meekosha, Helen – Disability & Society, 2011
This paper argues that the dominance of the global North in the universalising and totalising tendencies of writings about disability has resulted in the marginalisation of these experiences in the global South. This constitutes an intellectual crisis for disability studies in the periphery. The experience of colonisation and colonialism in the…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Social Attitudes, Disabilities, Geographic Location
Kerschbaum, Stephanie L. – Academe, 2012
In a recent issue of "Academe," Stephanie Goodwin and Susanne Morgan point out that faculty members with chronic illness are likely to find current accommodation procedures unhelpful, both because they might choose to remain silent rather than risk the stigma of disclosing a disability and because accommodations often do not meet their…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Chronic Illness, Social Problems, Social Attitudes
Guay, Mary – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine how teacher talk influenced the way issues of race, culture, and disability were addressed in literature discussion groups. Discussions of one teacher with two groups of students, of varying reading levels, were studied. The research questions were: 1) How does the teacher's perspective on the students…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Literature Appreciation, Literary Criticism, Social Problems