In this article, the author champions the benefits for everyone of a more inclusive approach to primary science. She relates some of her experiences based on 35 years of teaching science to people with special educational needs and disabilities/additional support needs (SEND/ASN) and offers some tips to enhance inclusion.

This article explores the nature of successful human rights education through the lens of a single case study. In the context of new legislation governing the right to work, An Cosán's Right to Work Education Project partnered with more than forty International Protection Applicants (IPAs) living in Direct Provision centres across Ireland. Funded…

Social work programs have progressed in ensuring equal access for qualified students with disabilities. Yet, schools of social work and their faculty have often struggled to fully include and comfortably balance the rights of students with disabilities and the gate-keeping role that rests with them to ensure that trained social workers are…

Educational psychologists seek to keep abreast of significant theoretical and practical developments within the field of inclusive education. This paper outlines and discusses Universal Design for Learning as a theory of inclusion, highly applicable for use by educational psychologists. The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework is…

The current concept of inclusive education brings to light the need for assessment of pre-service and in-service teachers' attitudes towards inclusion, as they are essential agents to achieve full educational inclusion. The present study aimed to adapt a simple unidimensional tool to assess attitudes towards inclusion, the TAI scale. A total of…

Teachers' attitudes towards students with disabilities have a crucial role in the effective implementation of the school inclusion process. This study examined the relationship of relevant teachers' personal variables (gender, age, length of professional experience, and the grade of the school in which they teach), characteristics of the students…

To foster children and young people's skills, dispositions and understanding that underpin a voice agenda, practices need to be developed that support this from the earliest age. This article explores issues relating to this complex, challenging and under-researched area from the perspective of practitioners working with children aged from birth…

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 calls on the education field to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all" by 2030. Education advancements such as the ones required to achieve that goal are often the result of decades of hard work. Unfortunately, the global…

This article has as its objective a revision of the intersectionality concept in order to acknowledge the possibilities offered by it in the construction of new knowledge. This will be done under the critical triad interculturality-health-corporeity, associated with the educational field. The research method used is a literature review, using a…

With the development of inclusive higher education, an increasing number of students with hearing impairment have gained access to university. However, evidence obtained from both international studies and studies in China, by and large indicates that students with hearing impairment are confronted with difficulties in academic domains, social…

In the United Kingdom (UK) particularly, grouping strategies in secondary education have attracted considerable political attention. While setting students by ability is frequently adopted in mathematics, English and science, mixed-ability grouping is common in other subjects, including physical education (PE). Educational research exploring…

Sport settings have long been documented as exclusionary environments for sexuality and gender diverse (SAGD) people and a key location of discrimination. Sport is associated with well-being, and increasing physical activity for disadvantaged groups is a key aim for many governments. This study reports on 13 semi-structured interviews with young…

Master of Public Administration (MPA) alumni face increasingly diverse and global professional expectations. Public affairs specialists generally go on to manage complex partnerships that involve a wide array of participants. Public administration education ought to do its part to ensure these graduates succeed. In this sense, we offer comparative…

One of the criticisms concerning teacher aides (TAs) is that they have limited education and pedagogical skills to support teaching of students with disabilities in the classroom. In Ghana, universities have responded and have introduced a 4-year degree programme in special education. The graduates are recruited as TAs by the government, to work…

In this essay, we argue that postqualitative inquiry is not a useful descriptor for environmental education research and that it is time to consider what comes after the posts. We argue that thinking with theory as a process methodology in the onto-epistemological framings of our research is more generative and opens up opportunities for this…