Transformative Inclusive Education

Author : Rick Freeze
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781773383620

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Inclusive education is a critical issue at the forefront of educators’ minds. Transformative Inclusive Education tackles the subject by reimagining current practices in education and renovating teaching strategies. This collection demonstrates that inclusion is an educational reform movement that can only succeed if educational institutions and practitioners rethink the meaning, substance, and purpose of education and adopt the new missions, patterns of decision-making, understandings of teaching and learning, pedagogies, collaborative roles, and classroom practices that flow directly from the inclusive reform movement. Featuring contributions from a diverse array of scholars, practitioners, and people with disabilities, this text weaves together the historical, legal, theoretical, and pedagogical currents that underpin the implementation of inclusive education and speaks to current research in the field. From there, it moves forward with a practical trajectory and guide for enacting lasting, effective change in schools to create an inclusive environment for all students. The authors integrate concepts such as RTI, UDL, MTSS, and SEL, and address issues such as collaborative decision-making, positive approaches to behaviour, academic scaffolding, and inclusive technologies and teaching practices. They also look beyond schools, extending inclusive education to families and communities and integrating self-advocacy in practice. Including case studies, realistic examples, and activities for further learning and reflection, this volume is a vital resource for undergraduate and graduate students in education. FEATURES - Provides a framework to redesign teaching practice and enact positive, lasting change for truly inclusive schools - Connects theory to larger pedagogical constructs such as experiential learning, social construction of knowledge, student engagement, and authentic learning - Contains resources for further reading and activity boxes with essential takeaways for student review

Author : Rick Freeze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Inclusive education
ISBN : 1773383647

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"Transformative Inclusive Education tackles the subject of inclusive education by reimagining current practices in education and renovating teaching strategies. This collection demonstrates that inclusion is an educational reform movement that can only succeed if educational institutions and practitioners rethink the meaning, substance, and purpose of education and adopt the new missions, patterns of decision-making, understandings of teaching and learning, pedagogies, collaborative roles, and classroom practices that flow directly from the inclusive reform movement. Featuring contributions from a diverse array of scholars, practitioners, and people with disabilities, this text weaves together the historical, legal, theoretical, and pedagogical currents that underpin the implementation of inclusive education and speaks to current research in the field. From there, it moves forward with a practical trajectory and guide for enacting lasting, effective change in schools to create an inclusive environment for all students. The authors integrate concepts such as RTI, UDL, MTSS, and SEL, and address issues such as collaborative decision-making, positive approaches to behaviour, academic scaffolding, and inclusive technologies and teaching practices. They also look beyond schools, extending inclusive education to families and communities and integrating self-advocacy in practice."--

Author : Alvyra Galkiene,Ona Monkeviciene
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030806583

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Improving Inclusive Education through Universal Design for Learning by Alvyra Galkiene,Ona Monkeviciene Pdf

This open access international scientific study provides an analysis of how the educational strategy of Universal Design for Learning can stimulate the process of inclusive education in different educational-cultural contexts and different areas of the educational system. The findings of the research deepen the conception of inclusive education and present an analysis of factors that are significant for developing the educational system as well as providing evidence-based recommendations for educational practice. The research for this work was done in four European countries with various historical-cultural contexts: Lithuania and Poland underwent a transformation of the educational systems at the turning point in their political system, shifting from a strictly centralized Soviet policy to a liberal and democratic education system; Austria has experienced changes in social stratification and a need for cultural harmonisation arising from active national migration processes, whereas Finland has been gradually developing a socio-democratic model of national welfare. The analysis of the educational processes in the four countries has been performed using a qualitative action research method. The researchers, in cooperation with the teachers from the selected schools in their country, have implemented the strategy of Universal Design for Learning and assessed its transformation indicators in terms of the quality of inclusive education components.

Author : Valentina Migliarini,Brent C. Elder
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031492426

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The Future of Inclusive Education by Valentina Migliarini,Brent C. Elder Pdf

This book addresses the tensions of existing theories and practices of inclusive education from an international perspective. Adopting Disability Critical Race Theory in Education (DisCrit) and Critical Disability Studies (CDS), the authors expose how race neutral knowledge characterizes inclusive education and exhorts readers to consider how intersectional perspectives provide more complex and nuanced understandings about ways in which racism and ableism simultaneously circulate as intersecting oppressions in schools and societies and across geographical borders. The authors begin by engaging in a critical analysis of the genesis of inclusive education before exploring how existing policies and practices of inclusive education in the global North evade the collusive nature of oppressions faced by minoritized students with disabilities and are uncritically transferred into the global South. Ultimately, the book encourages readers to reconceptualize inclusive education and move towards developing and sustaining transformative notions of global justice.

Author : Keengwe, Jared
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799895626

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Handbook of Research on Transformative and Innovative Pedagogies in Education by Keengwe, Jared Pdf

Various pedagogies, such as the use of digital learning in education, have been used and researched for decades, but many schools have little to show for these initiatives. This contrasts starkly with technology-supported initiatives in other fields such as business and healthcare. Traditional pedagogies and general digital technology applications have yet to impact education in a significant way that transforms learning. A primary reason for this minimal impact on learning is that digital technologies have attempted to make traditional instructional processes more efficient rather than using a more appropriate paradigm for learning. As such, it is important to look at digital technology as a partner and use transformative applications to become partners with students (not teachers) to empower their learning process both in and out of school. The Handbook of Research on Transformative and Innovative Pedagogies in Education is a comprehensive reference that identifies and justifies the paradigm of transformative learning and pedagogies in education. It provides exemplars of existing transformative applications that, if used as partners to empower student learning, have the potential to dramatically engage students in a type of learning that better fits 21st century learners. Covering topics such as gamification, project-based learning, and professional development, this major reference work is an essential resource for pre-service and in-service teachers, educational technologists, instructional designers, educational administration and faculty, researchers, and academicians seeking pedagogical models that inspire students to learn meaningfully.

Author : Stephen Rayner
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781848607569

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Managing Special and Inclusive Education by Stephen Rayner Pdf

′This book is about putting the theory of effective management and leadership into practice in the constantly changing context of meeting the complex needs of children and young people...It is an excellent resource for those who work in, or who aspire to work in, children′s services, education or multidisciplinary settings, at managerial or leadership level′ - British Journal of Special Education This book is a guide to special and inclusive education and provides a comprehensive overview of this complex field. The author examines context, policy and practice, and shows how to successfully navigate the managerial challenges involved, while contributing to the way forward through leadership in a diverse field. The author considers the present inclusion imperative with its implications for strategic leadership, planning and provision. He presents an inclusive style of leadership for an integrative management of individual differences in education, as well as a critical review of managing inclusive learning and teaching in school contexts. Written for aspiring and practising school leaders, this book is essential for those with responsibility for inclusion, school leaders in special schools, SENCOs, SEN advisors, and students on SEN management CPD or NPQH courses.

Author : Ann E. Lopez,Elsie L. Olan
Publisher : IAP
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641137010

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Transformative Pedagogies for Teacher Education by Ann E. Lopez,Elsie L. Olan Pdf

This is the second book in the series Transformative Pedagogies for Teacher Education. Like the first book in the series it is geared towards practitioners in the field of teacher education. This second book focuses on action, agency and dialogue. It features chapters by a collection of teacher educators, researchers, teacher advocates and practitioners drawing on their research and experiences with teacher candidates to explore critical issues in teacher education. The book will be useful to teacher educators working with teacher candidates in different contexts, particularly diverse contexts. Given demographic shifts and the need for educators to respond to growing diversity in schools, educators will find valuable strategies in Transformative Pedagogies in Teacher Education: Critical Action, Agency and Dialogue in Teaching and Learning Contexts they can implement in their own practice. In addition to valuable strategies, authors explore different approaches and perspectives in teacher education in the preparation of teacher candidates for a changing world. Critical notions of education are posited from different perspectives and locations. This book will be useful for schools, school boards and districts engaging in ongoing professional development of teachers. It will also be of value to school leaders and aspiring leaders in principal preparation programs as working with new teachers and teacher educators is an integral part of their role.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002229

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A Guide for ensuring inclusion and equity in education by UNESCO Pdf

Author : A. Liasidou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137333704

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Inclusive Education and the Issue of Change by A. Liasidou Pdf

Exploring the theoretical, policy and classroom (pedagogical) dimensions of transformative change within the context of inclusive education policy and practice, this book documents how ideological presuppositions and professional practice should be transformed in order to meet learner diversity in effective and non-discriminatory ways.

Author : Floyd Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Inclusive education
ISBN : 9768286318

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Inclusive Education by Floyd Morris Pdf

Makes the case for an education system that is fully accessible, in all respects, to persons with disability. The arguments are buttressed by recommendations for implementation of the necessary policy frameworks; more comprehensive teacher education; and the implementation of modern technologies to facilitate easier interaction and assimilation.

Author : G. Mac Ruairc,E. Ottesen,R. Precey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789462091344

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Leadership for Inclusive Education by G. Mac Ruairc,E. Ottesen,R. Precey Pdf

Inclusion is increasingly becoming one of the policy drivers shaping educational discourse and practice. What constitutes the term “inclusion” itself and how ideas derived from the different perspectives on inclusion impact school leadership practice point to a highly contested field of enquiry. Originally embedded in discourse relating to special education, ideas relating to inclusion are attracting much broader appeal within system reforms in many jurisdictions. This book seeks to keep the consideration of inclusion firmly in its broader context and to decouple it from the discourse relating to students with special educational/additional needs. This allows the authors to position their contributions more explicitly within discourses that draw on difference and diversity as unavoidable features of schools. Within this collection we address the current political dogmas in many countries that take a purely rational, managerial approach to leadership, arguing that this is not contributing to inclusion in schools. In doing this, the book seeks to shape current discourses on leadership by exploring perspectives which are likely to enhance our understanding of inclusion. Tolerance, respect, listening, clarifying language, being comfortable with differences and ambiguity and articulating and challenging the rationale behind “the way we do things around here” are key aspects of inclusive leadership, and also fundamental imperatives for writing this book. It will be useful to those in education who are engaged in further academic study in education or in reflective practice and to anyone taking advanced programmes in educational leadership and management. The international perspectives on the issue of inclusion informing this book ensure that this book will be essential for those engaged in a comparative analysis of leadership practice in different contexts or those concerned with the complexity of ensuring inclusive models of education.

Author : Erin Keith
Publisher : Information Science Reference
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798369318706

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Decolonizing Inclusive Education: Centering Heartwork, Care, and Listening by Erin Keith Pdf

Inclusive education faces a critical challenge rooted in an outdated paradigm that treats students as fixer-upper projects rather than recognizing their holistic needs. The prevalent toolbox approach, governed by frameworks like MTSS and RTI, tends to prioritize immediate academic gains, neglecting the intricate tapestry of students' identities, cultural nuances, and unique strengths. This myopic strategy fails to foster sustained growth and well-being, undermining the true potential of inclusive education. Addressing this pervasive issue, Decolonizing Inclusive Education: Centering Heartwork, Care, and Listening, provides a groundbreaking solution. By shifting the focus to heartwork, care, and listening, the book pioneers a decolonizing praxis in inclusive education. It challenges the prevailing tool-centric model and advocates for an approach that embraces the diverse identities, funds of knowledge, and cultural understandings of students. The book delves into topics such as classroom stories, engaging families, funds of knowledge, and decentering whiteness, offering a comprehensive guide to transform inclusive education into a space that not only acknowledges but celebrates the holistic well-being and growth of every student. Decolonizing Inclusive Education: Centering Heartwork, Care, and Listening spans an array of related topics crucial for educators, system leaders, and researchers. It explores ethical ways of decentering whiteness and engaging families in partnerships centered on students' intersecting strengths. The book is ideal for current and pre-service teachers seeking a transformative approach to inclusive education, as well as system leaders and graduate education researchers aiming to contribute to a more inclusive and ethically grounded educational landscape.

Author : Chris Forlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136287343

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Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education by Chris Forlin Pdf

Are teachers ready for inclusion? What is appropriate teacher education? Traditional approaches to inclusive education focused on learners with disabilities. Modern approaches, however, conceptualise inclusion in terms of providing educational equity and equality of access for all students within the same regular school system. Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education provides a wealth of ideas about how to support teachers to become inclusive through the application of positive training approaches. Written by some of the most influential internationally acknowledged experts in teacher education for inclusion and highly experienced researchers, together the authors provide a plethora of ideas for teacher educators to ensure that their training is pertinent, accessible, and futures-orientated. This up to date and accessible book combines three key areas related to teacher education for inclusion, which provide: A review of what is happening across the globe by offering examples from different regions; Preparation for teachers to support learners with a range of diverse needs including disability, poverty, ethnicity, gender, cultural diversity, learning disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder, sensory impairments and those who are considered gifted and talented; A consideration of systemic approaches, policy, and partnerships, and how these can be better employed in the future. This highly topical text will support all teaching professionals, educational systems, and schools in their transformation of inclusive teacher education.

Author : Koreeda, Kiyoji,Tsuge, Masayoshi,Ikuta, Shigeru,Dalton, Elizabeth Minchin,Ewe, Linda Plantin
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798369306666

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Developing Inclusive Environments in Education: Global Practices and Curricula by Koreeda, Kiyoji,Tsuge, Masayoshi,Ikuta, Shigeru,Dalton, Elizabeth Minchin,Ewe, Linda Plantin Pdf

Inclusive education remains a significant challenge in today's educational landscape, as K-12 classrooms and higher education institutions struggle to meet the diverse needs of all students. To address this pressing issue, Developing Inclusive Environments in Education: Global Practices and Curricula, led by Kiyoji Koreeda, offers practical strategies and insights. The book explores the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, providing a comprehensive guide to making learning inclusive and transformative. It showcases global examples of universal design curricula and highlights the use of educational technologies to facilitate inclusive learning experiences. By focusing on practical activities and support systems, the book empowers educators to build inclusive classrooms and higher education settings, offering detailed descriptions of useful tools and software for personalized teaching materials and reasonable accommodations. Developing Inclusive Environments in Education is an essential resource for researchers and educators committed to fostering inclusive practices and creating transformative educational environments. Embracing the strategies and insights presented in this book allows researchers and educators to revolutionize their approach to education. They can create inclusive environments that support the success and well-being of every student, ensuring that no one is left behind. By adopting the practical guidance and leveraging the examples provided, educators can implement inclusive practices and transform their classrooms and educational settings to meet the diverse needs of learners worldwide. This transformative approach empowers educators to utilize advanced curricula, leverage educational technologies, and implement personalized teaching materials and accommodations, ultimately creating an environment where all students can thrive. Developing Inclusive Environments in Educationserves as a valuable resource, equipping educators with the necessary knowledge and tools to build inclusive and transformative educational environments.

Author : Elizabeth B. Kozleski,Federico R. Waitoller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Inclusive education
ISBN : 1612501168

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Inclusive Education by Elizabeth B. Kozleski,Federico R. Waitoller Pdf

This book engages readers with real-world scenarios and critical reviews on the growth of inclusive education around the world. It investigates education, equity, and the sociocultural differences in public education systems.