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Saloviita, Timo; Consegnati, Simone – British Journal of Special Education, 2019
In 1977, Italy adopted a policy to fully include students with disabilities in mainstream classrooms. This study surveyed the attitudes of Italian teachers towards inclusive education 40 years after this reform. The data were collected from 153 basic school teachers using the Teachers' Attitudes towards Inclusion Scale (TAIS). The results indicate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Inclusion, Mainstreaming
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Wood, Rebecca; Milton, Damian – British Journal of Special Education, 2018
The Transform Autism Education (TAE) project is a tri-national teacher training scheme involving Greece, Italy and the UK, whose purpose is to set up training projects to facilitate the educational inclusion of autistic children. Running over three years from 2014 to 2017, the involvement of autistic participants has been the source of some…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Reflection, Student Participation
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Nepi, L. D.; Fioravanti, J.; Nannini, P.; Peru, A. – British Journal of Special Education, 2015
Empirical data on the effects of inclusion regarding the social participation of typically developing students and those with special educational needs are still controversial. While some studies suggest that the more extensive the inclusion, the higher the social position of students with special educational needs, evidence from other studies…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Special Needs Students, Special Education, Inclusion
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Runswick-Cole, Katherine; Hodge, Nick – British Journal of Special Education, 2009
It is nearly 30 years since Mary Warnock's "Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People" introduced the phrase "special educational needs" into the UK education system. In this article, Katherine Runswick-Cole, Research Associate at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Nick…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Childrens Rights, Young Adults, Foreign Countries