TEACHING METHODS USED IN SPECIAL EDUCATION: A CONTENT ANALYSIS STUDY


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UZUNBOYLU H., Özcan Kara D.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE RESEARCH IN SCIENCE ENGINEERING AND EDUCATION-IJCRSEE, vol.7, no.2, pp.99-107, 2019 (ESCI) identifier identifier

Abstract

This study aims to reveal the situation and trends in teaching methods used in special education. Content analysis and citation analysis were used in this study as a research model. Published documents were obtained from Scopus by using the keywords 'teaching method' and 'special education' and a total number of 63 documents were obtained. The published documents were examined based on the previously determined content analysis criteria involving year of publication, name of the journals, authors, affiliations, countries, document type, subject area, keywords, language and citations. Data were analysed and provided with frequency and percentages. Results generally showed that there is an increase in the number of researches on teaching methods and special education throughout the years, most of the published documents were articles and from the areas of social sciences and psychology. All of the results were discussed with the relevant literature and recommendations for further research and practices were presented. (c) 2019 IJCRSEE. All rights reserved.