Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ514800
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-2194
Bilingual Special Education Teachers' Shifting Paradigms: Complex Responses to Educational Reform.
Ruiz, Nadeen T.; And Others
Journal of Learning Disabilities, v28 n10 p622-35 Dec 1995
This study of five bilingual special education teachers identified three factors affecting attempts to change instructional practices: (1) a positive correlation between special education training and a reductionist approach; (2) relationship between changing both instructional practices and beliefs; and (3) the importance of including fellow teachers as agents of change. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Response, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Teacher Collaboration


