Week 1: Thinking about inclusive education

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9. Looking forward

In the next week of this course you will be introduced to ‘learner-centred teaching’. Learner-centred education is a popular policy response to calls for more inclusive teaching and is underpinned by inclusive attitudes and values. You will examine what this means and the implications for your own teaching practice. You will also be able to plan how you might apply learner-centred teaching approaches in your own context.

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References

Sarton, E. and Smith, M. (2018). The challenge of inclusion for children with disabilities – experiences and implementation in Eastern and Southern Africa Chapter 7 in Chakera, E. Tao, S. (Eds) (The UNICEF Think Piece Series: Innovative Thinking for complex Educational Challenges in the SDG4 Era. UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office, Nairobi. https://www.unicef.org/esa/sites/unicef.org.esa/files/2019-04/EducationThinkPieces_7_DisabilityInclusion.pdf (Accessed 12/02/2020)

Claro, S., Paunesku, D., & Dweck, C. (2016) ‘Growth mindset tempers the effects of poverty on academic achievement’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(31), pp. 8664–8668. [Online]. Available at www.jstor.org/stable/26471021 (Accessed 7 July 2020).

Goodall, C. (2020) ‘Inclusion is a feeling, not a place: a qualitative study exploring autistic young people's conceptualisations of inclusion’, International journal of inclusive education, 24(12), pp. 1285–1310. doi: 10.1080/13603116.2018.1523475 (Accessed 11th January 2021).

Sarton, E. and Smith, M. (2018) The challenge of inclusion for children with disabilities – experiences of implementation in Eastern and Southern Africa [Online]. Available at https://blogs.unicef.org/blog/challenge-inclusion-children-with-disabilities/ (Accessed 7 January 2021).

UNICEF (2020) Inclusive education: every child has the right to quality education and learning [Online]. Available at https://www.unicef.org/education/inclusive-education (Accessed 7 January 2021).

UNICEF (2018) A welcoming classroom – all abilities one education [Online]. Available at https://blogs.unicef.org/blog/welcoming-classroom-all-abilities-one-education/ (Accessed 7 January 2021).

United Nations (2006) Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities [Online]. Available at https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities/article-1-purpose.html (Accessed 7 January 2021).

Worldbank (2020) Social inclusion [Online]. Available at https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/social-inclusion (Accessed 7 January 2021)