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| List of Worksheets, Figures, and Photographs | |
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| Single Cases | |
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| Situation and Experience | |
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| A Technical View of a Case | |
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| The Quintain | |
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| The Case-Quintain Dilemma | |
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| The Research Questions | |
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| The Particular and the General | |
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| The Contexts | |
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| Making the Individual Case Report | |
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| Planning the Report | |
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| The Multicase Study | |
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| Staffing | |
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| Selecting Cases | |
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| Activity in Its Situation | |
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| Data Gathering across Cases | |
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| Triangulation within Cases | |
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| Cross-Case Analysis | |
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| Rationale | |
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| Reading the Collected Reports | |
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| Cross-Case Procedure | |
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| Expected Utility of Cases and Ordinariness of Situations | |
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| The Grounds for Assertions | |
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| Emphasizing Case Findings | |
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| Merging Case Findings | |
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| Providing Factors for Analysis | |
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| Cross-Case Assertions | |
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| Triangulation across Cases | |
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| The Report | |
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| Planning the Multicase Report | |
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| Comparing Cases | |
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| Advocacy | |
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| Generalization | |
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| The Step by Step Multicase Study Project | |
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| The Open Society Institute and the International Step by Step Association | |
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| The Step by Step Approach | |
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| Previous Step by Step Evaluations | |
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| Aims of the Step by Step Multicase Project | |
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| Developing Case Topics | |
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| Action Research | |
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| Themes for Cross-Case Analysis | |
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| The Teams and the Steering Group | |
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| Training the Case Researchers | |
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| Three Step by Step Case Studies | |
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| Addressing the Six Cross-Case Themes | |
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| The Experience of the Case Researchers and Mentors | |
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| The Ukraine Case Study | |
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| Inclusive Education: The Step by Step Program Influencing Children, Teachers, Parents, and State Policies in Ukraine | |
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| List of Characters | |
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| Liubchyk | |
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| Liubchyk's Teacher | |
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| Teacher Training in Lviv | |
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| A Press Conference in Lviv | |
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| Teacher Training in Kyiv | |
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| Teacher Training in Ukraine | |
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| Liubchyk | |
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| Observations by Ailsa Cregan, Mentor | |
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| Liubchyk's Mother | |
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| Shans, a Parent NGO | |
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| Interview with Mr. Volodymyr and Ms. Tamara | |
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| Board Meeting of the Center | |
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| National Context | |
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| Legislation | |
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| Treatment of Children with Disabilities | |
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| Interview with Victor Ogneviuk | |
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| Interview with Vyatcheslav Zasenko | |
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| The Ukrainian Step by Step Foundation | |
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| Brief History | |
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| Capacity of the Ukrainian Step by Step Foundation | |
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| The Ministry of Education and Science and Other Partners | |
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| Interview with Natalia Sofiy | |
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| Our Interpretation of Educational Policy | |
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| Our Interpretation of the Teacher Training | |
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| Our Interpretation of Inclusion | |
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| Liubchyk | |
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| The Slovakia Case Study | |
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| Impact of Step by Step at the Roma Settlement Jarovnice-Karice: Slovakia Community Resource Mobilization | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Community Center: Preparation for Inclusive Education | |
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| The Community Center: A Place for Lifelong Learning | |
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| The Community Center: A Place of Community Development | |
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| Civic Associations | |
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| Life in the Roma Settlement of Jarovnice | |
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| Education | |
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| Employment | |
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| The First Roma People in the Village | |
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| Religious Life in the Community | |
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| A Visit to the Parish Priest | |
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| Maria Lichvarova | |
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| Gaining Community Acceptance through the Children | |
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| The Pastoral Center | |
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| Home-Based Teaching | |
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| The Step by Step Program in Slovakia | |
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| Nadacia Skola dokoran-the Wide Open School Foundation | |
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| Special Primary Schools | |
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| The Special Primary School in Jarovnice | |
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| The Headmistress | |
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| Parent Participation | |
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| Whole-Language Strategies | |
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| Differentiated Instruction | |
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| The Teacher Assistants | |
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| Community Resource Mobilization | |
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| The Romania Case Study | |
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| The Romanian Case Study: Center for Educational and Professional Development, Step by Step Romania-Teacher Staff Development at the Tulcea Model Training Site | |
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| Summary | |
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| List of Characters | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Introduction and Historical/Political Background | |
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| Staff Development at the Tulcea MTS | |
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| The Growth of Step by Step Teacher Training in Romania | |
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| Teacher Training: The Engine of Educational Reform | |
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| The European Union and Romania | |
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| Traditional and Alternative Teacher Education | |
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| Professional Development from the Bottom Up: The General | |
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| Trainees' Expectations of Training | |
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| The Romanian Teacher-Training Network | |
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| Pluralism and Democracy | |
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| Teacher Training in MTS Kindergarten 3, Tulcea | |
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| Day One: Presenting the Step by Step Standards | |
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| Planning | |
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| Day Two: Step by Step Standards in Action | |
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| Parent Involvement | |
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| Alternatives and Partnerships | |
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| The Danube Delta: A Metaphor for Alternatives | |
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| The National Symposium in Targoviste | |
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| Mentoring | |
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| The Mentoring Experience | |
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| A Trainee in Galati | |
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| Reflection/Discussion | |
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| Step by Step Cross-Case Analysis: First Steps | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Contributors | |