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(Re)conceptualizing Curriculum in (Physical) Education: Focused on Wellness and Guided by Wisdom
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It is clear to many researchers that physical education needs significant reform (Bain, 1995; Devis-Devis & Sparkes, 1999; Fernandez-Balboa, 1997; Kirk, 2010; Lawson, 2009; Tinning, 2010). While these calls for curriculum change are warranted, how we problematize the issue of curriculum needs...
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A robot journey into cognition:The role and implications of augmentative manipulation in child development
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BACKGROUND: The strong relationship between motor and cognitive development suggests that the limited motor experience of children with physical disabilities can impact their cognitive and perceptual development. The assessment of their cognitive skills is also compromised due to limited verbal...
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Spring 2019
Play is a crucial activity in which children explore and interact with the environment through the manipulation of objects, developing cognitive, social and linguistic skills. Play in children with physical disabilities may be compromised due to their physical limitations and the lack of...
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Access to math activities for children with disabilities by controlling Lego robots via augmentative and alternative communication devices
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Children who have complex communication needs often use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices and strategies to address their communication requirements. If they have concurrent physical impairments, they may have difficulty accessing educational materials, especially when...
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Spring 2016
Inclusion, despite being a topic of discussion and debate across education domains internationally, has received limited research attention in dance education. Inclusion is grounded in an understanding that students with disabilities have a right to be educated alongside their peers in general...
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2017-04-20
Ireland, Kaitlyn, Palfy, Kylie, McFeetors, Janelle
LEARNING THROUGH GAMES Students can develop a meaningful understanding of mathematical ideas through games before they move toward abstractions (Dienes, 1971). Ernest (1986) identified three educational uses of games: gain skill-based fluency, develop conceptual understanding, and refine problem...
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Exploring the cultural construction of children's play in Thailand: an action research study with the Foundation for Child Development
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Children’s play has emerged as a global discourse (Fleer, 2009). Studies from diverse theoretical traditions have examined the role of play in child development; however, the dominant discourse of play has largely privileged Western European-heritage cultural practices, and as a result childhood...
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2017-04-20
Edgar, Tarah, McFeetors, Janelle, Shannon, Stephanie, Marynowski, Richelle, Candler, Alexandra
• Assessment’s purpose is primarily as evidence to improve future teaching and learning in math class. • Reform in classroom-based mathematics assessment has not followed pace with reforms in teaching and learning. • Categories of assessment as formative (assessment for and as learning) and...