Social Interactions in Inclusive Educational Settings

Social interactions in learning have been well-documented for several years and analysing it provides precious elements to explore deep learning processes (e.g., socio-cognitive and emotional aspects). Within the inclusive education perspective, it seems particularly important since it has been shown that a high level of social participation reflects the successful inclusion of students with disabilities. Nevertheless, investigation of social interactions, particularly among children that have a significantly different path of development, are challenging and should be carried out via an interdisciplinary perspective, including researchers, professionals, parents and also the people with disabilities.

Juliene Madureira Ferreira - Assistant professor, Tampere University Sabine Zorn - Postdoctoral researcher, and Esther Atlan - Doctoral researcher, INSHEA organise this workshop online, on the 28 and 29th january.

The theme of the symposium resonates with a long-standing worry about the methodological challenges of investigating social interactions in an inclusive educational setting, and particularly concerning the use of video data and their analyses We focus both on verbal and non-verbal modalities of communication, given that cognition is strongly linked with motor activities and experiences engaging the body. Therefore, our aim is to bring together well-known researchers working with different aspects of social interaction within different theoretical and approaches, and prominent researchers in the field of inclusive education to discuss how can we develop the methodologies to investigate social interaction within inclusive settings.

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