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Authors:
Armand Manukyan
Leila Maneslovic
Jérôme Dinet
Keywords: robot, autism, educators, acceptability, professional
Abstract:
This short paper is aiming to present our work in progress about a study to investigate the cognitive process of teaching for young learners with ASD in special education settings. Because research has largely examined the different cognitive processes involved in planning, instruction, and reflection separately and often in lab-controlled settings, our work in progress is searching to investigate attitudes of educators in special education settings (dedicated for children with ASD) towards robots as a category of tools in natural conditions and the impacts of their attitudes on their effective behaviours. From a theoretical point of view, this work in progress is based on the 4A Model for ”Acceptability, Acceptance, Adoption and Appropriation”, created to describe and predict relationships between attitudes and appropriation of complex technologies such as robots. From a methodological point of view, this work in progress is based on a mixed approach, combining interviews and focus groups conducted with several professionals working in different special education settings for children with ASD, and observations in situ to collect objective data about real activities performed by the educators with the children in the special education settings. Finally, it is suggested that future researchers examining educators’ thoughts and actions employ mixed methodologies, such as case study, that examine the cognitive processes holistically and in the natural teaching/education environment, thereby linking actual behaviors with the cognitive processes that produced them.
Pages: 51 to 54
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023
Publication date: June 26, 2023
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4197
ISBN: 978-1-68558-046-9
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from June 26, 2023 to June 30, 2023