Dr Diana Tsokova

  • Qualifications and position:
    • PhD
    • Lecturer in Psychology and Special Needs in Primary Education
    • Module Leader and Supervision Tutor
  • Faculty:
  • Department:
  • Summary:
    • Inclusive and special education, teacher education, autism, learning difficulties and disabilities
  • Teaching:
    • Programme: Masters in Special and Inclusive Education
      Module coordinator: Option module 'Inclusive Education: Theory and Practice' Programme: Primary PGCE
      Module leader: Option module 'Inclusion and Additional Needs'; Inclusion in Professional Practice
  • Research Projects:
    • (1) Inclusive Education in Finland: a case study;
      (2) Policy and Practice of Inclusive Education in Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina;
      (3) Teacher Education for SEN in Bulgaria;
      (4) Case studies of inclusion of children with ASD in primary schools;
      (5) Multiple Perspectives on Inclusive School Communities;
      (6) The effects of European Integration and international cooperation on changing systems of special and inclusive education.
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Disability in Eastern Europe
      Majda Becirevic - Full time PHD student, the Open University
  • Professional Activities:
    • Editorial Board: Bulgarian Journal of Special Education
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Values and Inclusion of Children with Special Educational Needs, paper presented at International Conference: Contemporary trends in the terminology of special education and logopedy. Sofia University with the Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria, March 6-7, 2007.

      Autism Spectrum Disorders in Bulgaria in a Process of Special Educational Integration, paper resented at the Fourth Autumn Research Conference:Teacher Education and the Preparation of Social Pedagogues in the context of European Integration, Kiten, Bulgaria 18-21 September 2006

      Integration of children with Severe Learning Difficulties: A Teachers' perspective. ISEC 2000, Manchester, July 2000.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Bulgaria - Special and Inclusive Education and Teacher Education
      Russia - Approaches to Special Education
      USA (North Dakota) - Teachers' Continuing Professional Development in ASD
      Finland - Special and Inclusive Education
      Latvia - Social Cohesion
  • Languages Spoken:
    • Bulgarian - Mother tongue. Can interview.
      Russian - Basic. Could interview with preparation.
      German - Intermediate. Could interview with preparation.
  • Languages Written:
    • Bulgarian - Highly advanced.
      Russian - Intermediate.
      German - Intermediate.
 

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Publications

  • Tsokova, D. (2008) 'Collaborative work as a key factor for successful mainstream integration of students with SEN'' in Z. Dobrev (ed) , Characteristics of Integrated Education, Sofia University. Sofia: Ivan Bogorov Publ..
  • Tsokova, D (2007) ''Inclusion of children with SLD: what can we learn from other's perspectives?' ', Bulgarian Journal of Special Education 1, 3-13.
  • Tsokova, D., (2006) 'Autism Spectrum Disorders in Bulgaria in a Process of Inclusion', Bulgarian Journal of Special Education 3, 3-8.
  • Tsokova, D (2004) Guide into theory and practice of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Sofia University Press..
  • Diana Tzokova with Zlatko Dobrev (2001) 'Bulgaria (Gypsy Children and Changing Social Concepts of Special Education)' in H. Daniels and P. Garner (eds.) , World Year Book of Education 1999, Second Edition, reprinted 2001.
  • Tzokova, D. (2000) ''Integration of children with Severe Learning Difficulties: A Teachers' perspective.'' Paper presented at ISEC 2000 , Manchester , July
  • Tzokova, D.& P.Garner (2000)'Special Education in Bulgaria' in C. Brock and R. Griffin (eds.) , International Perspectives on Special Education. Suffolk: John Catt Educational ltd .