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Are we good friends?
(2021)
Empirical studies already examined various facets of the friendship construct. Building on this, the present study examines the questions of how the number of friendships and their quality differ between students with and without SEN and whether a homophily-effect can be identified. The sample consists of 455 fourth-graders from 28 inclusive classes in Austria. The results indicate that students with SEN have fewer friends than students without SEN. Furthermore, students without SEN preferred peers without SEN as a friend. This homophily-effect was shown for students with SEN, too. However, students with and without SEN rated the quality of their friendships similarly and no interactions between the SEN status of oneself or of the friend was found for the quality of the friendship. The results show that, in the context of inclusion, the issue of friendship needs to be increasingly addressed to improve the situation of students with SEN.
Im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojekts zur Belastung und Beanspruchung von Kindern und Jugendlichen führten die Autorinnen Untersuchungen zur Entspannungsfähigkeit von nicht behinderten und behinderten Schülerinnen und Schülern durch. Die Fähigkeit zur Entspannung wird als wichtige Voraussetzung für die Entwicklung von Leiszungsfähigkeit, Wohlbefinden und Gesundheit angesehen. Zugleich wird davon ausgegangen, dass es einen unmittelbaren Zusammenhang zwischen psychosomatischen Auffälligkeiten und dem biologisch verankerten Reaktionsmuster Entspannung gibt. In drei unterschiedlichen Versuchsgruppen werden dazu physiologische Parameter mittels Blutdruck- und Hautwiderstandsmessungen erhoben. Die Untersuchungsergebnisse lassen Schlussfolgerungen für eine veränderte Unterrichts- und Lernprozessgestaltung zu.
In vergleichenden Untersuchungen zum Belastungserleben von Schulkindern wird dargestellt, welche Einschätzungen nicht behinderte und lernbehinderte Schülerinnen und Schüler bezüglich ihrer Belastung in schulischen und außer- schulischen Situationen vornehmen. In einem Gruppenvergleich wird herausgearbeitet, inwieweit gemeinsamer Unterricht in einer Allgemeinen Schule vs. dem Unterricht in einer Sonderschule zu Angst- und Stresserleben führt. Diese subjektiv bewussten Einschätzungen der Schülerinnen und Schüler werden mit Ergebnissen aus physiologischen Messungen verglichen, die im Heft 12/ 2002 dieser Zeitschrift dargestellt wurden.
Biologische Zeitstrukturen spielen im Tagesrhythmus eines jeden Menschen eine große Rolle und beeinflussen die Leistungsfähigkeit maßgeblich. In diesem Beitrag, der Teilergebnis einer Pilotstudie ist, wird dargestellt, wie mit Hilfe von Messungen des Hautwiderstandes dragestellt werden kann, in welchem Beanspruchungszustand lernbehinderte und nicht behinderte Grundschulkinder während eines Tages sind.
Mit diesem Beitrag möchten wir aufzeigen, welchen Stellenwert psycho-physiologische Erhebungen in der Diagnostik von Fähigkeiten, Fertigkeiten und Verhaltensweisen haben. Über solche Verfahren lassen sich Stresserleben und negative Beanspruchungen zeitiger erkennen als durch Beobachtungen und Befragungen. Im Rahmen einer Pilotstudie zum Belastungserleben von Schulkindern wurden von uns Daten mittels standardisierter Fragebögen und physiologischer Messungen erhoben. Wir haben zunächst psycho-physiologische Beanspruchungszustände von Grundschulkindern im Tagesverlauf erfasst, weil der circadiane Rhythmus die prinzipielle Grundlage für alle Lebens- und Lernprozesse darstellt. Darauf basieren weiterführende Untersuchungen zu situations- und anforderungsbezogenen Beanspruchungen von Schülerinnen und Schülern, die schließlich auf das Erfassen von Beziehungen zwischen psycho-physiologischen Zuständen und Verhaltensbeobachtungen gerichtet sind. In diesem Beitrag werden Ergebnisse aus 24-Stunden-Messungen vorgestellt.
Refugee youth in protracted humanitarian contexts are faced with limited access to quality education. They may sustain traumatic experiences from conflicts and discrimination yet have limited psychosocial support access. Comprehending the magnitude and effects of these challenges is vital for designing and executing educational interventions in such contexts. This study evaluates the implementation quality of the Youth Education Pack intervention through the lens of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies minimum standards framework. It explores the types of discrimination experienced by refugee youth in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Nine participants comprising refugee students (N = 2), former refugee students (N = 2), teachers (N = 3), and project supervisors (N = 2) participated in the study. The first author conducted interviews and observations in the camp. The data were qualitatively coded deductively and analysed in Nvivo 12. We found that the YEP intervention faced contextual challenges that hindered the achievement of the implementation quality standards outlined in the INEE minimum standards for education. Refugee youth and refugee teachers experienced various forms of discrimination, including at individual, institutional, and structural levels. We conclude that providing refugee youth with an inclusive and high-quality education is central to providing secure and long-term solutions to their challenges and adversities and may promote their psychosocial wellbeing.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) both are rare genetic neuromuscular diseases with progressive loss of motor ability. The neuromotor developmental course of those diseases is well documented. In contrast, there is only little evidence about characteristics of general and specific cognitive development. In both conditions the final motor outcome is characterized by an inability to move autonomously: children with SMA never accomplish independent motoric exploration of their environment, while children with DMD do but later lose this ability again. These profound differences in developmental pathways might affect cognitive development of SMA vs. DMD children, as cognition is shaped by individual motor experiences. DMD patients show impaired executive functions, working memory, and verbal IQ, whereas only motor ability seems to be impaired in SMA. Advanced cognitive capacity in SMA may serve as a compensatory mechanism for achieving in education, career progression, and social satisfaction. This study aimed to relate differences in basic numerical concepts and arithmetic achievement in SMA and DMD patients to differences in their motor development and resulting sensorimotor and environmental experiences. Horizontal and vertical spatial-numerical associations were explored in SMA/DMD children ranging between 6 and 12 years through the random number generation task. Furthermore, arithmetic skills as well as general cognitive ability were assessed. Groups differed in spatial number processing as well as in arithmetic and domain-general cognitive functions. Children with SMA showed no horizontal and even reversed vertical spatial-numerical associations. Children with DMD on the other hand revealed patterns in spatial numerical associations comparable to healthy developing children. From the embodied Cognition perspective, early sensorimotor experience does play a role in development of mental number representations. However, it remains open whether and how this becomes relevant for the acquisition of higher order cognitive and arithmetic skills.
Development of self-concept and task interest has been shown to be affected by social comparison processes in a variety of cross-sectional studies. A potential explanation for these effects is an effect of social comparative performance feedback on an individual’s self-evaluation of performance, which in turn influences development of self-concept and task interest. There are, however, only few studies addressing this topic with experimental designs. This study was aimed at closing this research gap by experimentally manipulating social comparative performance. Feedback given was based on 2 × 2 experimental conditions: social position (high vs. low) and average performance of the reference group (high vs. low). Results show a strong effect of social position on self-evaluation of performance and smaller effects on self-concept and task interest.
In his essay, Mel Ainscow looks at inclusion and equity from an international perspective and makes suggestions on how to develop inclusive education in a ‘whole-system approach’. After discussing different conceptions of inclusion and equity, he describes international policies which address them. From this international macro-level, Ainscow zooms in to the meso-level of the school and its immediate environment, defining dimensions to be considered for an inclusive school development. One of these dimensions is the ‘use of evidence’. In my comment, I want to focus on this dimension and discuss its scope and the potential to apply it in inclusive education development. As a first and important precondition, Ainscow explains that different circumstances lead to different linguistic uses of the term ‘inclusive education’. Thus, the term ‘inclusive education’ does not refer to an identical set of objectives across countries, and neither does the term ‘equity’.