Exploring Thai Teachers’ Perspectives on Evidence-informed Practices in Inclusive Early Childhood Education

A Unified Theory of Practice in Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education: Evidence-Based Practices

Citizens of the United States, like citizens of many other countries, have made a commitment to their nation’s care, welfare, development, and education of infants and young children with identifiable disabilities, or at clear risk of disability, and their families (Hanson, 2003). Societal values dictate that support should be given to those most in need, such support should be well planned and...

Teachers as Designers: Integrating Robotics in Early Childhood Education

This article presents a constructionist approach to introducing technology, in particular robotics, in the early childhood classroom. The authors demonstrate how this approach is well suited, since the four basic tenets of constructionism have a long-standing tradition in early childhood education: (a) learning by designing meaningful projects to share in the community, (b) using concrete objec...

Indonesian teachers' epistemological beliefs and inclusive education.

A growing number of children with intellectual disabilities attend inclusive schools in Indonesia. Previous research has suggested that teachers' type of school and experience influences their beliefs about inclusive education. This research collected questionnaire data from 267 Indonesian teachers and compared the responses from those working in inclusive, special and regular schools regarding...

Children's knowledge, teachers' knowledge: Implications for early childhood teacher education

Training on Inclusive Education: Perception of Primary Teachers

Inclusive Education is concerned with removing barriers to learning with the participation of all learners vulnerable to exclusion and marginalisation. To train up teachers for inclusive Education environment, government gave emphasis on teacher training about Inclusive Education. The objective of the study is to explore the perception of primary school teachers about inclusive education, speci...