In recent years, sociometric techniques have been increasingly used to assess friendship
development in children with special educational needs integrated in regular educational …

To introduce this special issue, the concept of the teacher as an “invisible hand” is presented
as a metaphor to describe the potentially influential but relatively understudied contribution …

Social Network Analysis and Education: Theory, Methods & Applications provides an
introduction to the theories, methods, and applications that constitute the social network …

Experiences with peers constitute an important developmental context for children wherein
they acquire a wide range of behaviors, skills, and attitudes that influence their adaptation …

This chapter first traces peer experiences and relationships from their building blocks in
infancy and early childhood through their advances in adolescence. It then discusses the …

This study examined the effects of peer groups on changes in academic engagement in 11‐
to 13‐year‐old children. From the entire cohort of 366 sixth graders in a town, 87 …

A stochastic actor‐based model was used to investigate the origins of sex segregation by
examining how similarity in sex of peers and time spent in gender‐typed activities affected …

Applying social capital and systems theories of social processes, we examine the role of the
classroom peer context in the behavioral engagement of low-income students (N= 80) in …

The extant literature on the social functioning of students with learning disabilities (LD) has
indicated that whereas a majority belong to peer groups, a higher proportion are isolated …

Social connectedness (SC), as a sense of belonging and a psychological bond a person
may feel towards other people or groups, is imperative for the positive mental and physical …