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Special Education and Teaching

2014

School engagement

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Predictors Of School Engagement For Females With Emotional And Behavioral Disabilities, Stacey Hardin Jan 2014

Predictors Of School Engagement For Females With Emotional And Behavioral Disabilities, Stacey Hardin

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Women in general have been historically overlooked in society and, more recently, in research females with emotional and behavioral disabilities (EBD) have been unnoticed (Rice, Merves, & Srsic, 2008). The purpose of the current study is to build a foundation of knowledge and practices for educators and researchers to better support and education this unique population of females. To better understand females with EBD, the researcher imposed a three-phase study, situated in two frameworks-the Culturally Responsive Theory Framework (Wlodkowski & Ginsberg, 1995) and the Participation-Identification Model (Finn, 1989), to look into the predictors of school engagement for females with EBD. …