TY - JOUR
T1 - The closeness of fit
T2 - Towards an ecomap for the inclusion of pupils with ASD in mainstream schools
AU - Emam, Mahmoud Mohamed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The number of pupils with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who join mainstream schools in the UK has been increasing over the last decade. Given the difficulties in social and emotional understanding which these children have, their inclusion in schools is likely to be challenging. Their ASD-related manifestations, moreover, tend to allow for tensions to arise between them and the different systems of the school ecology. We examine the inclusion of these pupils from a developmental-systems perspective as articulated by the bio-ecological and the transactional models. Using data from a qualitative research project which explored the effect of autism-related difficulties in social and emotional understanding on the inclusion of 17 pupils with ASD the study describes the working dynamic of the arising tensions at the micro-system level. The study outlines an ecopmap of the nested structures at the micro-, meso-, exo-, macro- and chrono-systems which may facilitate or impede the children's inclusion.
AB - The number of pupils with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who join mainstream schools in the UK has been increasing over the last decade. Given the difficulties in social and emotional understanding which these children have, their inclusion in schools is likely to be challenging. Their ASD-related manifestations, moreover, tend to allow for tensions to arise between them and the different systems of the school ecology. We examine the inclusion of these pupils from a developmental-systems perspective as articulated by the bio-ecological and the transactional models. Using data from a qualitative research project which explored the effect of autism-related difficulties in social and emotional understanding on the inclusion of 17 pupils with ASD the study describes the working dynamic of the arising tensions at the micro-system level. The study outlines an ecopmap of the nested structures at the micro-, meso-, exo-, macro- and chrono-systems which may facilitate or impede the children's inclusion.
KW - Bioecological model
KW - Developmental systems theory
KW - Inclusion
KW - Pupils with ASD
KW - Transactional model
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U2 - 10.5539/ies.v7n3p112
DO - 10.5539/ies.v7n3p112
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84924850814
SN - 1913-9020
VL - 7
SP - 112
EP - 125
JO - International Education Studies
JF - International Education Studies
IS - 3
ER -