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Social participation in inclusive physical education: On the importance of class, teaching methods and teacher characteristics
No full textInclusive education aims to give all children access to the general education system, regardless of their disposition, and thereby reduce social exclusion. The aim is to achieve equal participation in society called for in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In many countries, including Switzerland, this has led to the increased integration of children with special educational needs into mainstream schools in recent years. However, studies show that the social participation of children with special educational needs in inclusive classes is often accompanied by challenges. Compared to their peers, children with special educational needs have fewer interactions and friendships and are less accepted. In particular, children with intellectual disabilities are at risk of social exclusion.
Regarding reduced social participation, inclusive physical education is seen as having a particular potential to promote this participation. However, joint teaching alone is no guarantee that children with and without special educational needs are equally involved in social processes in their class. In inclusive physical education, social exclusion can be particularly visible and tangible, as the learners\u27 physicality is more in focus than in other subjects. In inclusion research, it is therefore of interest how social participation can be promoted. In the field of inclusive physical education with children with intellectual disabilities, however, there is hardly any empirical knowledge on this. This dissertation addresses this research gap and investigates how aspects of social participation of children with intellectual disabilities are shaped in inclusive physical education and which factors are related to them.
The data for the three manuscripts submitted for the dissertation all come from the SoPariS research project, which focuses on inclusive physical education with children with intellectual disabilities. In 2019, a cross-sectional study with quantitative questionnaires was conducted for pupils and physical education teachers, surveying 109 primary school classes (3rd-6th grade). Multilevel regressions and social network analysis show that children with intellectual disabilities receive significantly less social interaction (Furrer et al., 2021, 2020) and are less accepted (Furrer et al., in press) than their peers without disability. At the same time, there are fewer social interactions in physical education than in classroom teaching (Furrer et al., in press). The individual reference norm orientation of the physical education teacher is positively related to social acceptance and social interactions, whereby these are particularly increased for children with intellectual disabilities. Furthermore, teaching cooperative norms is positively related to children\u27s social acceptance (Furrer et al., 2020). However, social interactions are not related to the physical education teacher\u27s attitude towards inclusive teaching (Furrer et al., 2021). Finally, social interactions in both physical education and classroom teaching are positively related to classroom climate (Furrer et al., in press).
In summary, it can be stated that the investigated aspects of social participation of children with intellectual disabilities are significantly lower than those of children without intellectual disabilities, even in inclusive physical education at primary school level. Specifically, social interactions and acceptance are below average. However, factors could be identified that are positively related to social participation. The great challenge of integrating children with special educational needs is to make teachers aware of the importance of social processes in the classroom and to train and develop them in this area. While the manuscripts of this dissertation provide valuable insights into the promotion of social participation of children with special educational needs in inclusive classrooms, further longitudinal intervention studies are needed to investigate the direction of impact of these factors and to show change over time.
References
Furrer, V., Mumenthaler, F., Eckhart, M., Nagel, S., & Valkanover, S. (in press). Zum Zusammenhang von Klassenklima und sozialen Interaktionen. Ein Vergleich zwischen inklusivem Klassenzimmer- und Sportunterricht [On the relationship between classroom climate and social interactions. A comparison between inclusive classroom and physical education teaching]. Zeitschrift für sportpädagogische Forschung.
Furrer, V., Mumenthaler, F., Valkanover, S., Eckhart, M., & Nagel, S. (2021). Zum Zusammenhang zwischen der Einstellung der Lehrkraft zu inklusivem Sportunterricht und sozialer Interaktionen von Kindern [On the relationship between teacher attitudes towards inclusive physical education and children\u27s social interactions]. Zeitschrift für Grundschulforschung, 14, 237-256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42278-021-00108-9
Furrer V., Valkanover S., Eckhart M., & Nagel S. (2020). The role of teaching strategies in social acceptance and interactions; Considering students with intellectual disabilities in inclusive physical education. Frontiers in Education, 5, Article 586960. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.58696
Vater – Lehrer – Führer. Pestalozzis Selbstdarstellung im Spiegel seiner Institutsreden
No full textSchütze SB. Vater – Lehrer – Führer. Pestalozzis Selbstdarstellung im Spiegel seiner Institutsreden. In: Furrer M, Hofstetter R, eds. Denk-Mal Pestalozzi. Bildungsforschung und Bildungspraxis / Beiheft. Vol 1. 1st ed. Freiburg, Schweiz: Universitäts-Verlag; 1995: 56-100
Massenaussterben und Evolution
No full textBroschüre zur gleichnamigen Sonderausstellung des Paläontologischen Instituts und Museums und des Zoologischen Museums der Universität Zürich, 3.11.2009-5.9.201
A selective view of climatological data and likelihood estimation
No full textThis article gives a narrative overview of what constitutes climatological data and their typical features, with a focus on aspects relevant to statistical modeling. We restrict the discussion to univariate spatial fields and focus on maximum likelihood estimation. To address the problem of enormous datasets, we study three common approximation schemes: tapering, direct misspecification, and composite likelihood for Gaussian and nonGaussian distributions. We focus particularly on the so-called 'sinh-arcsinh distribution', obtained through a specific transformation of the Gaussian distribution. Because it has flexible marginal distributions - possibly skewed and/or heavy-tailed - it has a wide range of applications. One appealing property of the transformation involved is the existence of an explicit inverse transformation that makes likelihood-based methods straightforward. We describe a simulation study illustrating the effects of the different approximation schemes. To the best of our knowledge, a direct comparison of tapering, direct misspecification, and composite likelihood has never been made previously, and we show that direct misspecification is inferior. In some metrics, composite likelihood has a minor advantage over tapering. We use the estimation approaches to model a high-resolution global climate change field. All simulation code is available as a Docker container and is thus fully reproducible. Additionally, the present article describes where and how to get various climate datasets. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND licens
Neue Fossilien aus dem Hochgebirge Graubündens
No full textSeit 1997 führt ein kleines, hoch motiviertes Team der Universität Zürich unter Leitung von Heinz Furrer, dem Autor dieses Berichts, auf mehr als 2700 Meter über Meer im Ducangebiet zwischen Davos und Bergün GR systematische Fossiliengrabungen in Sedimentgesteinen der mittleren Trias durch. Dabei wurden in 241 Millionen Jahre alten Meeresablagerungen der mittleren Trias viele ausgezeichnet erhaltene Fossilien gefunden, die mit denjenigen der klassischen Fundstelle des Monte San Giorgio im Südtessin vergleichbar sind. Die meisten Versteinerungen stammen von kleinen urtümlichen Knochenfischen mit Schmelzschuppen, aber auch bis zu 1 m lange Raubfische konnten vollständig geborgen werden. Dazu kamen seltenere Reste von meer- und landbewohnenden Sauriern, von Krebsen, Muscheln, Schnecken, Kalkalgen und Landpflanzen
OKA process evaluation
No full textprepared by: Carrie Furrer, Ph.D., Beth L. Green, Ph.D.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Emergence of Klebsiella pneumoniae co-producing NDM-1, OXA-48, CTX-M-15, CMY-16, QnrA and ArmA in Switzerland
No full textExtensively drug-resistant (XDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates usually carry a single carbapenemase (e.g. KPC, NDM, OXA-48-like). Here we describe an XDR K. pneumoniae of sequence type 101 that was detected in the screening rectal swab of a patient transferred from the intensive care unit of a hospital located in Belgrade (Serbia) to Bern University Hospital (Switzerland). The isolate was resistant to all antibiotics with the exception of colistin [minimum inhibitory concentration] (MIC≤0.125μg/mL), tigecycline (MIC=0.5μg/mL) and fosfomycin (MIC=2μg/mL). The isolate co-possessed class B (NDM-1) and class D (OXA-48) carbapenemases, class A extended-spectrum β-lactamase (CTX-M-15), class C cephalosporinase (CMY-16), ArmA 16S rRNA methyltransferase, substitutions in GyrA and ParC, loss of OmpK35 porin, as well as other genes conferring resistance to quinolones (qnrA), tetracyclines [tet(A)], sulfonamides (sul1, sul2), trimethoprim (dfrA12, dfrA14), rifampicin (arr-1), chloramphenicol (cmlA1, floR) and streptomycin (aadA1). The patient was placed under contact isolation precautions preventing the spread of this nearly untreatable pathogen
Estimation and prediction using generalized wendland covariance functions under fixed domain asymptotics
No full text\ua9 Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2019 We study estimation and prediction of Gaussian random fields with covariance models belonging to the generalized Wendland (GW) class, under fixed domain asymptotics. As for the Mat\ue9rn case, this class allows for a continuous parameterization of smoothness of the underlying Gaussian random field, being additionally compactly supported. The paper is divided into three parts: first, we characterize the equivalence of two Gaussian measures with GW covariance function, and we provide sufficient conditions for the equivalence of two Gaussian measures with Mat\ue9rn and GW covariance functions. In the second part, we establish strong consistency and asymptotic distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator of the microergodic parameter associated to GW covariance model, under fixed domain asymptotics. The third part elucidates the consequences of our results in terms of (misspecified) best linear unbiased predictor, under fixed domain asymptotics. Our findings are illustrated through a simulation study: the former compares the finite sample behavior of the maximum likelihood estimation of the microergodic parameter with the given asymptotic distribution. The latter compares the finite-sample behavior of the prediction and its associated mean square error when using two equivalent Gaussian measures with Mat\ue9rn and GW covariance models, using covariance tapering as benchmark
Investigations of connection detailing and steel properties for high ductility doweled timber connections
No full textAccording to Eurocode 8 moderate to high dissipative behaviour of timber structures requires sufficient ductility
of the critical regions. Earlier experiments on timber connections with slotted-in steel plates and laterally loaded
common steel dowels rarely achieved high ductility values. Connections consisting of LVL-C members, doweltype
fasteners with different post-elastic steel properties, full confinement of the timber member and measures
to restrain the notch effect were investigated by means of monotonic and cyclic tests with regards to the
displacement ductility. The measures taken proved to be effective in enhancing the plastic deformation capacity
of the steel dowels to a large extent. However, a new aspect was observed: the constriction of the dowels in the
contact area with the plate. The research results provided a better understanding of the factors influencing the
behaviour of slotted-in steel plate connection
3D model and accompanying dataset related to the publication: A new, exceptionally preserved juvenile specimen of Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi (Diapsida) and implications for Mesozoic marine diapsid phylogeny
No full textThe present contribution contains the 3D model and dataset analyzed in the following publication: Scheyer, T. M., J. M. Neenan, T. Bodogan, H. Furrer, C. Obrist, and M. Plamondon. 2017. A new, exceptionally preserved juvenile specimen of Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi (Diapsida) and implications for Mesozoic marine diapsid phylogeny. Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04514-x
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