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Abstract |
Across
Europe, Occupational Traveller childrens' experiences with computer-based
learning initiatives (Toilot, Flex and Trapeze) have shown that open
and distance learning raises questions about 'educational quality'.
Anecdotal reports, from Scottish teachers with experience of laptop
provision for 'out of school' learning, suggest that teaching staff
require specialised training in the use of technology. Teachers also
report pupils require significant parental input of practical help
and encouragement if laptops are to succeed in supporting children
to achieve positive educational experiences. The research, 'Interrupted
Learning: laptops and their communicative possibilities', has commenced
with a feasibility study of councils' provision of laptops to pupils
who experience significant periods of learning 'out of school', as
a technological means of keeping a pupil in touch with a 'base school'
and its curriculum opportunities. The research is expected to establish
reasons for councils' use of this provision, both as a means of enhancing
access to meaningful learning and for teaching purposes. |
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Publications |
Jordan,
E. (1995). Interrupted Education in Scotland, Bridges, Vol 1 (1),
14-15.
Jordan, E. & Holmes, P. (1997) The Interrupted Learner: whose responsibility?
in Home-School Work in Multicultural Settings, (ed), Bastiani, John.
David Fulton Publishers: London 89-98.
Jordan, E. (1999). Interrupted Learners, Special Educational Needs -
sharing practice series, No 23, SCET: Glasgow.
Jordan, E. (1998). Ensuring Equity in Education for Interrupted Learners,
Conference Report funded by STEP & Scottish Executive Education Department.
Jordan, E. (2000). Outside the Mainstream: social exclusion in mobile
families from home-school partnerships in Parents and Education Around
the World, (ed.) Hull, A., Scottish School Boards Association: Dumfries.
Jordan, E. (2000). From Interdependence, to Dependence and Independence:
home and school learning for Traveller children in Childhood, vol 8 (1):
in progress, Sage Publications
Jordan, E. (2000). The Excluding Comprehensive School System: the experiences
of Showground families in Scotland in Mapping International Diversity
in Researching Traveller and Nomadic Education, Special Edition of, International
Journal of Educational Research, Vol 33 (3): 252-263.
Jordan, E. (2000). Exclusion of Travellers in State Schools' in Educational
Research, vol 43 (1) NFER: Windsor.
Jordan, E. (2000). The Inclusive School: effective education for secondary
age Travellers' in Die Schulsituation von Sinti und Roma in Europa, (Hrsg.)
Sabine Hornberg, IKO - Verlag fur Interkulturelle Kommunikation: 159-188. |
