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  • The Journey for Inclusive Education in the Indian Sub-Continent

    by Mithu Alur, Michael Bach ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Despite national and international commitments to Education for All, and the Millennium Development Goals to assure universal primary education by 2015, over 90% of children with disabilities remain excluded from regular education in countries of the south. This book describes a three decade-long change initiative in India to enable children with disabilities to move from segregation and exclusion ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Dyspraxia

    Developmental Co-Ordination Disorder

    by Amanda Kirby Dr. ...
    This informative, practical book is intended to help parents and teachers with innovative ideas that they can use to encourage and support children to improve motor skills. It looks at every stage, through early years at home, at nursery school, primary and secondary school and into adulthood.With information about causes and symptoms given in simple terms, as well as information about diagnostic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Radical Education and the Common School

    A Democratic Alternative

    by Michael Fielding, Peter Moss ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our image of the child and the school? How does the ever more pressing need to develop a more just, creative and sustainable democratic society affect our responses to these questions?Addressing these fundamental issues, Fielding and Moss contest the current mainstream ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Understanding Behaviour and Development in Early Childhood

    A Guide to Theory and Practice

    by Maria Robinson ...
    In this accessible and thought-provoking text, the author examines the behaviour of babies and young children in a developmental context, and takes into account the shifts and changes over time as young children grow and mature.Understanding Behaviour and Development in Early Childhood reveals, for example, how behaviour perceived as ‘difficult’ in a young child may be the manifestation of a ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Community Engagement 2.0?: Dialogues on the Future of the Civic in the Disrupted University

    by Scott L. Crabill ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    As higher education is disrupted by technology and takes place less and less on campus, what does meaningful community engagement look like? How can it continue to enrich learning? In Community Engagement 2.0? , Crabill and Butin convene a dialogue: five writers set out theoretical and practical considerations, five more discuss the issues raised. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Adults With Disabilities

    international Perspectives in the Community

    Edited by Paul Retish, Shunit Reiter ...
    This book concerns the process of transition that we all make throughout our lifetime, and the necessary skills individuals with disabilities need to function outside of school. The book illustrates that the problems of transition are not just for persons with disabilities, but for everyone. Acceptance of differences, understanding that our perceptions may not be accurate, and the ability to be ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education

    An International Perspective

    Edited by Chris Forlin ...
    Are teachers ready for inclusion? What is appropriate teacher education?Traditional approaches to inclusive education focused on learners with disabilities. Modern approaches, however, conceptualise inclusion in terms of providing educational equity and equality of access for all students within the same regular school system.Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education provides a wealth of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Reinventing the Curriculum

    New Trends in Curriculum Policy and Practice

    Edited by Dr Mark Priestley, Professor Gert Biesta ...
    Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence offers an example of a different approach to national curriculum development. It combines what are claimed to be the best features of top-down and bottom-up approaches to curriculum development, and provides an indication of the broad qualities that school education should promote rather than a detailed description of curriculum content. Advocates of the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities

    International Perspectives

    by Bronagh Byrne, Kate Diesfeld, Petra Engelbrecht, John Hancock, Neville Harris, Jim Jackson, Laura Lundy, Nina Ranieri, Marius Smit, M K. Teh, Fatt Hee Tie, Sally Varnham, Ran Zhang, Greg M. Dickinson, Allan G. Osborne Jr. ...
    Since 1948 when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all students have been declared the right to education. The rights of disabled students have not been explicitly addressed, however, and each country has developed their own rules and regulations. Although similarities exist among the different countries, differences are evident, especially in both the extent and ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Global Convergence Of Vocational and Special Education

    Mass Schooling and Modern Educability

    by Jinting Wu, John Richardson, Douglas Judge ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Special Educational Needs
    The global trend in educational participation has brought with it a cross-national consequence: the expansion of students with "special needs" (SEN) placed in special education and the growth of "low achieving" students diverted to vocational tracks. This book explores the global expansion of special and vocational education as a highly variable event, not only across nations of considerable ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Education, Translation and Global Market Pressures

    Curriculum Design in China and the UK

    by Wan Hu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates the market-driven transformation of the higher education sector and the response given by the translation programmes in the UK and China, two vastly different social and economic contexts. It provides an in-depth look at six selected case studies, critically analysing how social, economic, and political factors have affect curriculum designs in different translation ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability

    Perspectives from historical, cultural, and educational studies

    Edited by David Bolt ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
    Whilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ultimately these legal and policy changes are ineffectual without a corresponding attitudinal change ... Read more

    $70.99 USD