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Progressive Inclusion: An Ethnographic case study. The daily life of a progressive and inclusive classroom

Darling, Kami E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253304106

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2009, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, ED Teaching and Learning (Columbus campus).
The present ethnographic study is designed to examine an inclusive classroom culture when the pedagogy is progressive. It takes a comprehensive look at daily events within the classroom, following four tracer children who reflect a wide range of abilities, through the rituals of teaching and learning within this classroom. The researcher acted as a participant observer using multiple methods of data collection for viewing the teaching practice, the co-construction of knowledge, the collaboration between educators and the experiences of the children. This study reveals that the progressive pedagogy is able to create an e/affective teaching and learning context for children with diverse abilities, which otherwise may be referred to as an “inclusive classroom.” The data yielded that progressive pedagogy builds an authentic, all inclusive community. When the pedagogy is progressive, a separate, articulated approach for children with disabilities who are included in the inclusive classroom may not be needed. This ethnography illuminates that socially constructed projects within the progressive practice are a teaching and learning context for all and diverse students, and progressive pedagogy offers an “invisible” layer of support for children of diverse abilities including those with identified disabilities. Additionally, intervention methods used in this classroom were explored from the progressive lens finding that views on pull-out intervention by the children, a practice that contradicts progressive ideals, differs based on community membership.
Rebecca Kantor, Ed.D. (Advisor)
Scot Danforth, Ph.D. (Committee Co-Chair)
Brian Edmiston, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Laurie Katz, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
357 p.
Education
inclusion; progressive education; early childhood inclusion; collaboration; community; co-teaching; pedagogy; educational practice; Dewey; progressive inclusion

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  • Darling, K. E. (2009). Progressive Inclusion: An Ethnographic case study. The daily life of a progressive and inclusive classroom [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253304106

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Darling, Kami. Progressive Inclusion: An Ethnographic case study. The daily life of a progressive and inclusive classroom. 2009. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253304106.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Darling, Kami. "Progressive Inclusion: An Ethnographic case study. The daily life of a progressive and inclusive classroom." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253304106

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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