Many inclusion activists state that inclusive classrooms promote improvements in self-concept, self-esteem, and growth in social awareness, morals, and the ability to have caring relationships for both disabled and non-disabled students (Tapasak, and Walther-Thomas, 1999). In addition to providing both academic and social benefits for all students, inclusive classrooms teach students valuable life skills that they wouldn't otherwise learn in a non-inclusive classroom (Tapasak, and Walther-Thomas, 1999). ... Another issue that cannot be ignored is where students with disabilities fit in wi...

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Teachers must provide an environment which each student feels comfortable in for them to develop social and learning skills. ... Either the individual was a victim of bullying, a perpetrator or a bystander, it has developed into an issue that it's even began to start expanding through the internet and technology uses such as social media. ... Victims of bullying may soon develop some short term mental issues such as a feeling of low self-esteem and isolation. ... While this is the circumstance for most issues surrounding negligence, it is in fact not the same case with school authorities ...

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ISSUES IMPACTING ON MY TEACHING THE ARTS R-7. Issue 1. "The growing concerns about increasing marginalisation of art in the primary school curriculum and in courses of primary initial teacher education-. The attitudes of elementary classroom teacher's towards art have a considerable influence...

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Social Media is becoming more of a trend in classrooms today. Teachers are starting to use social media cites like Twitter, Facebook, and Edutopia to help students relate to in-class topics. ... " With computers being in every class room and students being able to use programs like Microsoft Word to check spelling errors or correct grammar issues, students don't gain the knowledge they need; they almost handicap themselves. ... A big difference now is that adults and kids must educate their self on privacy issues when using the computer. ... Because of the large number of social netw...

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: The Politics of Service Learning, Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer touch on overcoming the "otherness" that students often feel when learning about social issues. ... (Kahne and Westheimer, 596) Kahne and Westheimer are talking about how a student can learn about something in class but still feel detached from a social issue because they haven't experienced it first hand. ... In a social issues class, such as the Animal Rights course, it is ideal to have a service learning component for the student to get the most enriching educational experience. ... Students in the Animal Rights c...

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There is therefore need to explore issues arising from incidences of cyber bullying. ... As a result, the authors have discussed both the positive and negative effects of social networking. ... Students tend to use a variety of social networks, including MySpace and Facebook, to bully each other. ... They have indicated that cyberbullying is a major issue that has been covered by different sections of the law with the aim of mitigating the issue. ... It also explores the legal issues and court cases that have addressed the issues of cyberbullying. ...

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But there are some issues that teachers can control within the classroom walls. ... The belief is that the behaviors can be manipulated to become positive social and acceptable reactions. ... This is what makes productive and socially acceptable members of the community. The academic skills are as important to the needs of students with SED as social skills. ... The neglecting of academic skills is sometimes an avoidance issue. ...

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The resources that educators have access to and utilize in different events changes their ability to project beyond the local, thus examine the global issues of literacy. ... The author states that at the earliest moments of making judgments about what is good learning can influence later outcomes based on self-perception and social standing. ... This writer's discourse on the various articles in the special issue describes the notion that they are not all success stories, but lessons learned. ... This presents their understanding of an educational process which does not acknowledge the s...

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As a social reconstructionist, it is my belief that the heart of education should lay in the foundation of growth through social action. ... As it is my responsibility to educate students to change the world for the better, I must center my learning objectives around generating change of social issues and inequalities and instilling habits and values that are useful to the greater local, national, and international communities. ... As an institution of change and in providing for the needs of the people, education should help people identify with and contribute to social groups while also equi...

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Highlight key issues from the scenario that relate to Piaget's developmental theory and personal constructivism. ... Piaget did not believe social interaction was the only method in learners constructing new knowledge. ... Another issue that can be highlighted from the scenario indicates that social interactions play an important role in the knowledge construction learning processes (Taber, 2011). ... This element in Carol's pedagogy is a significant learning issue present in the scenario. ... Group work in Carol's class allows social interactions between students. ...

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Educational inequality is a reflection of wider social inequalities. ... Why then, is the achievement gap between social classes an issue? ... In this respect, an ideology is fundamental as to how government will explain, or indeed attempt to deal with a public or social issue such as educational inequality. ... This creates an unfair advantage and reproducing social inequalities over time and generations (Eccleshall et al., 1999:34). ... Social democratic regimes provide the highest degree of social welfare. ...

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Introduction a student's literacy, employment, social status and productivity. ... This approach to education acknowledges aboriginal culture and values whilst embracing the Aboriginal community and promoting the social, cultural and educational growth of their children. ... Sarra, (2012) asserts having a teaching aide from the community enables the provision of insight on possible issues. ... Poor literacy skills have an impact on a student's health, employment, housing and justice issues. ... This could be in the form of sporting clubs, social clubs and community events. ...

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This motivation helped them to succeed in reaching unanimity on issues such as the comprehensive school system. ... This idea of schooling emerged in the late1960s, when "a new social policy climate was diffusing the values of equality and social justice throughout Finnish society" (Sahlberg, 2012, p.3). ... Regardless of a person's gender, background, or social welfare status, everyone should have an equal chance to make the most of their skills.  ... They achieve a successful treatment for students with educational needs because in every comprehensive school there is team int...

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This significance of this viewpoint indicate the need for a deeper understanding of the issues and concerns surrounding environmental education in order to teach it efficiently and to harness this power to its full potential. ... Environmental education also entails practice in decision making and self-formulation of a code of behaviour about issues concerning environmental quality.' ... If we take this assumption as accurate then EE is too be used as a tool to promote the involvement of young people in environmental issues and encourage them to become engaged and active decision make...

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Thomas Banchoff, who wrote the introduction for the newest re-publication of Flatland said this about the novel, "Abbott was a social reformer who... was a firm believer in equality of educational opportunity, across social classes and in particular for women. ... A big issue I noticed from reading the article on Madison High School was that students came to the school and were suddenly faced with interacting with students from many different backgrounds, and they did not know how to do that. ... For example, the main character, a square from Flatland, has many social viewpoints that are extre...

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Just like communication is one of the most important features of social beings, so, is the process of learning aspects that are needed for social interaction. That is why even before schools and books, parents were in the ones in charge of helping children acquiring and developing social skills. And so, these days many parents still think there are some issues that they need to teach regarding social knowledge. ... And in this interview, we realized that people have many misconceptions about children's learning; therefore the objectives of our research are: 1.To help parents, te...

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As assured in every debatable matter, there are two different points of view regarding this issue. ... When parents allow their children learn in co-educational schools they are in a way preparing them academically, emotionally, and socially for higher education and life demands an environment that is reflective of the real world. ... So, with the presence of this issue commonly in co-ed schools, impressing the opposite gender would be high on the students' to-do lists. ... The fact that boys and girls study separately allows them to concentrate more on their studies because it removes t...

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It is increasingly important for political, social, educational and economic reasons to recognize the US is a culturally diverse society. 2. ... One of the major issues pointed out was that "It is tempting to deny our prejudices and claim that we find all children equally appealing" (Phillips 2). ... The last approach mentioned was the Social Action Approach. With this approach students will use the knowledge they already know and focus that on important social issues, asking students to make decisions and appropriate actions to become skilled in social change. ...

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It is increasingly important for political, social, educational and economic reasons to recognize the US is a culturally diverse society. 2. ... One of the major issues pointed out was that "It is tempting to deny our prejudices and claim that we find all children equally appealing" (Phillips 2). ... The last approach mentioned was the Social Action Approach. With this approach students will use the knowledge they already know and focus that on important social issues, asking students to make decisions and appropriate actions to become skilled in social change. ...

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The plan also introduced the Regents Minimum Competency Tests, which requires a student to pass tests in five major categories; math, science, reading, writing, and two areas of social studies. ... Students should learn to interact socially with each other. ... If students learn how to be socially productive, I feel our violence rates would dramatically decrease. ... Cooperation between a teacher and student facilitates the greatest growth in each student's intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development. ... This improves social skills, which stated before, will improve violenc...

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In various regions of the world the EFA Goals are frustrated by social, cultural and economic factors. ... It then considers the effects of the social, cultural and economic which hinders the country in achieving the set EFA goals. ... Over the last decade or so, several international conferences were organised focusing on EFA and other critical issues. ... There are no current child labour laws in place thus making it challenging for the National Commission for Protection of Child's Rights to tackle the issue (Kannan, 2014). ... In the same vein, the social position of women is weak ...

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Some of these issues are easily rectified by moderating the breadth and depth of integration; other issues are systemic in nature and can only be addressed by modifying curriculum integration to fit within established educational policies and practices. ... This would allow individual subject area teachers to address specific issues to the discipline along the same theme, creating more connection and relevance for the students. ... Although teachers might be excited and initially supportive of the change, there is a question regarding the plan for addressing the issues that inevitably come ...

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This is a major issue facing schools today and will continue to plague administrators in the years to come. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) issued several reports during the 1970's and 1980's revealing that a majority of students were not developing intellectual capacities necessary for democratic citizenship, lifelong learning, and productive employment in the economic system. ... He went on to say that teacher unions must play a key role in this transformation by putting school reform issues front and center and that they must ensure a quality teacher in ...

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Interactions between single sex high schools are common and really develop students' social and communicational skills. ... In single-sex high schools some of these issues are taken out of the picture. ... The girls I know that have gone to single-sex schools excel academically at University of Missouri and have no problems socially. The high school system is a big social structure that is held in a high educational regard. ... Communication skills are learned more through ones' home and social life than through school settings. ...

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Due to educational disparities brought on by social class and income, as well as race, gender, stratification, and socioeconomic factors and economic returns on education, the U.S. education system continues to be a vehicle for social reproduction instead of mobility. ... Not only is class a factor of social reproduction in itself, but there are also several social processes in school by which class patterns reproduce. ... They have better classroom interaction if the degree of social capital matches up with the curriculum of the schools. ... Women also have differential incentives to receive ...

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