Perspectives on inclusive education: learning from each other

Perspectives on inclusive education: learning from each other

address inclusive education and, increasingly, distance education is seen as a flexible and appropriately inclusive way to deliver such courses. In this article a team of colleagues, Kieron Sheehy, Jonathan Rix, Melanie Nind and Katy Simmons, discusses the development of an Open University course, E243 Inclusive Education: Learning from Each Other, which was launched in February 2004. The team ...

Learning From Each Other: Creativity in East Asian and American Education

Educational systems grow from cultural expectations and ideologies. Eastern and Western educational systems are as vastly different as the cultures they spring from and are reflective of the strengths and weaknesses of those cultures. First, strengths and limitations of East Asian education are discussed. Second, strengths and limitations of American education are discussed. Finally, some sugge...

The four UK health systems: Learning from each other

Outcomes research in the global environment: learning from each other.

As the United Nations and the world recognize the global importance of noncommunicable disease, with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease at the forefront,1 it is an opportune time to declare the commitment of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes to serve as a resource to the international community and as a welcoming venue for international content. In the interest of collabo...

Historical Perspectives on Games and Education from the Learning Sciences

This paper reviews three classic theorists’ writing on games, learning, and development. Piaget, Vygotsky, and Bruner all wrote about games and play as important to thinking and learning. This review attempts to synthesize their perspectives as a means to revisit underused theoretical perspectives on the role of games in education. The views of Piaget and Vygotsky are applied with respect to th...