The Impact of the Covid‐19 Global Health Pandemic in Early Childhood Education Within Four Countries

Autor: Lynn McNair, John Ravenscroft, Irene Rizzini, Kay Tisdall, Linda Biersteker, Fortunate Shabalala, S’lungile K. Thwala, Clement N. Dlamini, Malcolm Bush, Malibongwe Gwele, Lizette Berry

Publikováno v: Social Inclusion, Vol 10, Iss 2, Pp 160-171 (2022)

The recent Covid‐19 global health pandemic has negatively affected the political and economic development of communities around the world. This article shares the lessons from our multi‐country project Safe, Inclusive Participative Pedagogy: Impr

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Cerebral Visual Impairment on the Web: An Exploration of an Educational Web Resource as a Bridge to Public Understanding

Autor: John Ravenscroft, Helen St Clair Tracy, Andrew Blaikie

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Communication, Vol 6 (2021)

Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) is the most common form of childhood visual impairment. Yet it remains the least well understood by parents and professionals alike. There is an urgent need to provide a bridge between academic knowledge concerning CV

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Factors associated with successful transition among children with disabilities in eight European countries.

Autor: John Ravenscroft, Kerri Wazny, John M Davis

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 6, p e0179904 (2017)

This research paper aims to assess factors reported by parents associated with the successful transition of children with complex additional support requirements that have undergone a transition between school environments from 8 European Union membe

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Extended cognition, assistive technology and education

Autor: Duncan Pritchard, Andrea R. English, John Ravenscroft

Publikováno v: Pritchard, D, English, A R & Ravenscroft, J 2021, ' Extended cognition, assistive technology and education ', Synthese . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03166-9

Assistive technology (AT) is widely used in contemporary special needs education. Our interest is in the extent to which we can conceive of certain uses of AT in this educational context as a form of extended cognition. It is argued that what is crit

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03166-9

Promoting a balanced early years curriculum for young children with vision impairment: Developing and sustaining personal agency through a bioecological systems perspective

Autor: John Ravenscroft, Joao Roe, Rachel Hewett, Elizabeth McCann, Mike McLinden, Graeme Douglas

Publikováno v: McLinden, M, Ravenscroft, J, Douglas, G, Hewett, R, McCann, E & Roe, J 2020, ' Promoting a balanced early years curriculum for young children with vision impairment : Developing and sustaining personal agency through a bioecological systems perspective ', British Journal of Visual Impairment . https://doi.org/10.1177/0264619619901036

Through the use of their developing vision, young children develop increasingly sophisticated ways of establishing control within different learning environments, thereby helping them to exert influence as active ‘agents’. Vision impairment can p

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https://doi.org/10.1177/0264619619901036