National Louis University

About: National Louis University is a education organization based out in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Higher education & Curriculum. The organization has 380 authors who have published 727 publications receiving 10184 citations.

A Preliminary Investigation Into the Identification and Development of Early Mathematics Curriculum-Based Measurement

Abstract: Recent studies indicate that students in the United States are not achieving sufficient mathematics skills to meet the demands required of them within and outside of school. Among the keys to preve...

Vocabulary: Questions from the classroom

Abstract: The authors review important research in vocabulary teaching and learning, and then address questions teachers have about vocabulary instruction.

Handbook of Reading Research, Volume V

Abstract: A comprehensive overview of important contemporary issues in the field of reading research from the mid 1980s to mid 1990s, this well-received volume offers readers an examination of literacy through a variety of lenses--some permitting microscopic views and others panoramic views. A veritable "who's who" of specialists in the field, chapter authors cover current methodology, as well as cumulative research-based knowledge.Because it deals with society and literacy, the first section provides the broadest possible view of literacy. The second section defines the range of activities culturally determined to be a part of the enterprise known as literacy. The third focuses on the processes that individuals engage in when they perform the act of reading. The fourth section visits the environment in which the knowledge that comprises literacy is passed on from one generation to the next. The last section, an epilogue to the whole enterprise of reading research, provides apt philosophical reflection.

Presage of a paradigm shift? Beyond the social model of disability toward resistance theories of disability

Abstract: Over the last decade, a growing number of scholars in Disability Studies have begun to critique the social model of disability. This paper documents the movement in these critiques, analyzing several ways paradigms and theories have been used in relation to the social model and the ways in which resistance plays a part in these paradigms. In the second part of the paper, we begin to explore the implications of resistance theory for disability theory, noting that resistance appears to exist throughout all paradigms at play in disability studies while it is rarely explicitly addressed. We conclude by describing the potential use of resistance theory for both theory and praxis.

Disability studies and inclusive education — implications for theory, research, and practice

Abstract: This paper serves as a broad introduction to Disabilities Studies in Education (DSE). The emergence of DSE over the last decade has resulted in a vibrant area of academic scholarship as well as a c...