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Reconceptualising education support services in South Africa
Inclusive education has been phased in in South Africa since 2001, but relies heavily upon adequate support services to support learners and teachers experiencing barriers to learning and development. This book focuses on the different levels of support provided in South African education – from School-based Support Teams to District-based Support Teams through to special and full-service sch…
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- 9781776342051
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- xxiii, 422p; ill
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- 370 REC r
Uprooting Bias in the Academy : Lessons from the Field
This open access book analyzes barriers to inclusion in academia and details ways to create a more diverse, inclusive environment. It first describes what the barriers to inclusion are and how they function within the broader society, focusing on concept of implicit bias: what it is, how it develops, and the importance of training organizational members to recognize and challenge it. It then di…
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- 9783030856687
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- 255 p ; ill
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- 379.26 UPR L
Intercultural Approaches to Education : From Theory to Practice
This open access book provides an analysis of contemporary societies and schools shaped by cultural diversity, globalization and migration. This diversity is necessarily reflected in education systems and requires the promotion of intercultural approaches able to improve learning processes and the quality of education. From an international and comparative perspective, this book first presen…
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- 9783030708252
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- xxii, 213 p.
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- 370.117 INT A
Translating human rights in education : the influence of Article 24 UN CRPD i…
The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) is the first human rights treaty to explicitly acknowledge the right to education for persons with disabilities. In order to realize this right, the convention’s Article 24 mandates state parties to ensure inclusive education systems that overcome outright exclusion as well as segregation in special educat…
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- 2
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- 9780472902705
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- xv, 206p.
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- 371.909669 TRA b
Improving inclusive education through universal design for learning
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 signif…
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- 9783030806583
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- xiii, 332 p. ; ill
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- 371.9046 GOL i
Disability human rights law 2018
Disability human rights law is a rapidly growing field. It merges critical disability studies, disability rights, and human rights to inform, identify, analyse, and create solutions to help protect the human rights of people with disabilities. This is the second volume of the Disability Human Rights Law edited collection. This volume delves deeper into this emerging field and begins to explore …
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- 9783038972518
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- ix, 217p.
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- 346.41013 DIS d
Social participation of students with special educational needs in mainstream…
Advocates of inclusive education argue that the social inclusion of students with special educational needs (SEN) increases when they are educated with typically developing peers. However, research indicates that this is not apparent for all students with SEN. Students with social, emotional and behavioural diffi culties (SEBD) are often socially excluded. To understand the situation of th…
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- 9780429264184
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- 24 p.
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- Student voices on social exclusion in general primary schools (Chapter 1)
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- 371.1 LEE s
Inclusion in socio-educational frames : inclusive school cases in four Europe…
There are many publications about inclusive education although only a few review international comparative studies. This book presents the nexus of theory and practice, gives opportunities for the reader to observe inclusive education through socioeducational lenses and, thus, promotes reflective thinking. It is noteworthy, that the book makes the respondents’, i.e., parents’, teachers’ a…
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- 9786094710995
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- 473p. : ill.
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- 371.9046 INC i
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