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A web space of the South African Department of Basic Education where educators, parents and education officials can share knowledge and best practice in the field of
inclusive education.
Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner.
Via Shane Smith
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish - and how current education culture works against them.
Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
BETTER school and vocational training completions will do much more to improve social inclusion than achievement of the Bradley higher education targets, a new study reveals.
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research report, released yesterday, finds that low education levels are a “powerful marker” of social exclusion.
It finds the “biggest pay-off” for the social inclusion agenda will come from efforts to ramp up qualifications at year 12 and apprenticeship level.
Slashing the number of people without basic tertiary qualifications – in line with the Council of Australian Governments target to halve the proportion of adults without at least a certificate III – could reduce the incidence of social exclusion by 30 per cent, the modelling reveals.
By comparison, increasing the proportion of people with degrees – in line with the Bradley target of 40 per cent higher education attainment, for example – would have a “much more modest” impact on social inclusion.
The study applies a modern view of social exclusion that goes “beyond the standard poverty lines approach”.
“In the 90s they [realised] it’s not just income. It’s education, it’s health, it’s interacting with your neighbours, it’s feeling safe in the community,” co-author Hielke Buddelmeyer says in an NCVER podcast.
The researchers created a measure of social exclusion based on seven components: material resources, employment, education and skills, health and disability, social factors, community factors and personal safety.
But education is a “sleeper factor” which influences the other six, as well as contributing to social exclusion in its own right.
Dr Buddelmeyer says people with higher education levels are more likely to be healthy and employed on a good income, and they tend to live in nicer neighbourhoods with less crime and more interaction with their neighbours.
“If you work on education as a channel, you can really make a big inroad in reducing rates of social exclusion,” he says.
But he says the “big gains” in social inclusion aren’t achieved by helping people who’ve completed year 12 to obtain bachelors degrees. “At the lower end [of the education spectrum] there’s still that much space to improve on,” he says.
The study finds the “real dichotomy” in social exclusion lies between those who haven’t completed school or achieved certificate III level qualifications, and everybody else. Between 2001 and 2008, social exclusion flat-lined or rose slightly for the former group, while it declined steadily for more educated groups.
However all groups experienced increased social exclusion in 2008, at the time of the global financial crisis.
The modelling finds social exclusion declines as people move up the qualifications ladder, with degree-qualified people excluded at less than half the average rate. But exclusion rates among people without high school or basic vocational qualifications are almost double the average.
The study uses data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, managed by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ survey of education and training.
Via cberghsa
A groundbreaking initiative, that puts money and responsibility in headteachers' hands, is helping to keep children who face exclusion in mainstream education...
Via asperger-kids.org
Disability advocates are crying foul after some school districts sought flexibility under federal education rules, a move they say could prove harmful to students with disabilities.
Since the end of the industrial age, Americans have worried about improving their education system. A more thoroughgoing and systematic approach to educational improvement Is needed. To see what such an effort might look like, consider that any professional field consists of the following four components: human capital, which involves attracting, selecting, training, and retaining the people who work in the field; a core of knowledge that guides the field; effective organizational structures; and overall performance management and accountability. Every profession needs to set its priorities within and among these four elements; ideally, they work together in harmony.
A small change tucked inside a government spending bill this month may have big implications for special education.
Via Dennis P. Garland
Czech Government Takes Backwards Step on Inclusive Education – NGOs Sound Alarm (RT @ERRCtweets: Czech Government Takes Backwards Step on Inclusive Education – NGOs Sound Alarm: http://t.co/nygRiJZT3t...
These 8 education technology books cover technical, cultural and practical ideas and concepts to successfully integrate technology into the classroom.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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French child psychiatrists, in contrast with their American counterparts, view ADHD as a medical condition that has psycho-social and situational causes. Instead of treating children's focusing and behavioral problems with drugs, French doctors prefer to look for the underlying issue that is causing the child distress—not in the child's brain but in the child's social context. They then choose to treat the underlying social context problem with psychotherapy or family counseling. This is a very different way of seeing things from the American tendency to attribute all symptoms to a biological dysfunction such as a chemical imbalance in the child's brain.
Via Maggie Rouman
Concept-mapping–or mind-mapping, idea-mapping, or some other variation that makes sense to you–is the practice of demonstrating the relationship between ideas in a map-like form.
Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
This conference aims to promote discussion of inclusive learning in Europe while providing networking and collaborative opportunities for VET and continuing education professionals, providers of e-learning, social partners and policy makers in LLL and related fields; in addition to members of the E-RURALNET Network.
The conference will focus on the role of ICT in increasing access to LLL, in particular continuing education in territories facing the risk of education exclusion due to geographic remoteness, social disadvantage or poor facilities. Improved access to inclusive learning would facilitate economic development and enhance quality of life in rural areas.
Via Paulo Simões
Differentiated Instruction: 5 Quick Tips For A Simpler Classroom
Via Charity Stephens
Newberry Elementary unique in embracing special kids Gainesville Sun The school is one of six in the nation to be selected as models of inclusive education, meaning all of its special-needs students take classes with non-disabled students instead...
What?? Google’s AI glasses with heads-up display are a clear winner for users who can’t even see? Absolutely. Moreover they promise huge potential benefits for users with a range of other impairments too. Read the full story for Why Google Glass is a clear winner for the blind
Via Margaret McKay
Thirty years ago, A Nation at Risk was released to a surprised country. Suddenly, Americans woke up to learn that SAT scores were plummeting and children were learning a lot less than before. This report became a turning point in modern U.S.
Via Dennis P. Garland
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