Roberta V. Nata 
Progress in Education. Volume 67 

This edited volume includes ten chapters, each of which provides a unique perspective on specific topics in the field of education. Chapter One constitutes a literature review on how crucial occupational factors affect the way teachers tend to approach and respond to their daily school duties. Chapter Two aims to gain an understanding of special education teachers’ instructional perspectives and their instructional practices when providing comprehension instruction for students with autism spectrum disorder. Chapter Three highlights the evolution of the Portuguese scientific system over recent decades. Chapter Four focuses on the use of music as an educational modality to help children with language and learning problems. Chapter Five presents a technological ecosystem for classroom management that offers electronically mediated classroom support with engaging activities and learning strategies. Chapter Six describes an intervention program that was developed to raise awareness of cyberbullying and help children acquire effective coping strategies. Chapter Seven examines how using e-learning technology with graphical music representations can lead to increased confidence levels in students who have no prior music training. Chapter Eight analyzes student behaviors collected from three different learning management systems used in distance learning. Chapter Nine describes various types of nursing curricula with a special focus on the role of conceptual frameworks in shaping curricula. Finally, Chapter Ten provides an overview of the historical development of pedagogical approaches in nursing education.