Understanding Inclusive Design Education

Understanding the development of inclusive education system

Links between inclusive education and inclusive research

In recent years, particularly since the Salamanca Statement (UNESCO, 1994), considerable attention has been given to inclusive education. The concept of inclusive research has also emerged (Walmsley and Johnson, 2003). Initially this was associated with people with learning disabilities but now has a wider application. The two concepts have some shared values and the links between inclusive edu...

Engineering Education: How to Design a Gender-Inclusive Curriculum

Despite recent efforts to increase the numbers of females in engineering courses, the proportion has plateaued at an average ofless than 20%. To increase the proportion further many believe that the way engineering courses are structured and presentedmust be changed. Demand for change in engineering education is also coming from a number of other directions as has beendemonstrated i...

Inclusive education: a Pacific perspective

People of the Pacific are urged to note that inclusive education, as defined by UNESCO , is ‘a process of addressing and responding to the diversity of needs of all learners through increasing participation in learning ... and reducing exclusion within and from education’ (Booth, 996 cited in UNESCO, 2003:7). The objective is to support education for all, with special emphasis on removing barri...

Friendship in inclusive physical education.

Social interaction and development of friendships between children with and without a disability are often proposed as potential outcomes of inclusive education. Physical activity specialists assert that exercise and sport environments may be conducive to social and friendship outcomes. This study investigated friendship in inclusive physical education from the perspective of students with (n =...