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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Davis, J. M.; Deponio, P. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2014
This paper draws from our experiences of an EU Life Long Learning Programme Project: GATE Understanding Dyslexia Phenomena Between Pre-Primary And Primary (2009-2011) to discuss different conceptual positions concerning dyslexia. It compares medical notions of dyslexia with perspectives from childhood and disability studies to question the ways in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Inclusion, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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Hovdelien, Olav – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2014
In Norway, 9 out of 10 children between the ages of one and five participate in an educational formation programme which, despite around half of the kindergartens being privately owned, is regulated by a common law and relatively detailed regulations describing what the content of kindergartens should be. Norwegian kindergartens therefore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Diversity, Kindergarten, Social Values
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Mooij, Ton – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
Young gifted children perform in the top 10% in assessments of cognitive, social, expressive or other abilities. The study first considers why, and how, cognitively gifted pupils in particular may face enforced underachievement as early as in preschool. A longitudinal multilevel model is developed to represent various types of interaction between…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Information Technology, Guidelines, Foreign Countries
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Cushman, Penni – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2012
If teachers are to play a positive educative role in addressing societal gender-related issues that impact on social justice and inclusiveness, teacher education institutions have to ensure that their graduating teachers are well equipped with the necessary understandings and skills to enact this role. This research draws on interviews with men…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teacher Education, Women Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Omdal, Heidi – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2008
There is little research on inclusion of children with selective mutism in school/kindergarten. Moreover, few studies have tried to understand selectively mute children's interactions in the natural surroundings of their home and school/kindergarten. Five children meeting the DSM-IV criteria for selective mutism were video-observed in social…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Kindergarten, Mainstreaming, Inclusive Schools
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Nes, Kari; Stromstad, Marit – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2006
In this paper, we will present some proposals by a committee whose mandate was to review basic education in Norway, and more importantly, we will discuss the reactions to these proposals. The committee made more than one hundred different suggestions. Our focus will be on inclusion in a broad sense. The proposal to receive the most attention was a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Special Education, Languages