Links Between Teachers’ Knowledge About Special Educational Needs and Students’ Social Participation and Academic Achievement in Mainstream Classes

• Study on students with special educational needs (SEN) in mainstream classes. • Focus on SEN in learning (LD) and emotional and behavioral difficulties (EBD). • Students with SEN (LD and partly EBD) show poorer performance than their peers. • Students with SEN EBD but not with SEN LD feel less socially integrated. • Teacher knowledge is related to student social participation and academic performance. Teachers' pedagogical knowledge is...