Social-emotional learning (SEL) has been around in the educational world for many years and a hot topic over the past decade. Research has shown the positive effects of SEL including increased self-esteem, academic success, and social-emotional development (Durlak et al., 2011). However, few have looked into the effect on varied populations (Irby…

This dissertation in-practice analyzes the impact of reforming the staff hiring process and its potential to affect culture within the campus racial climate. The study uses the improvement science model, which is a methodological approach built on pragmatism and science that uses disciplined inquiry to solve problems of practice (Perry et al.,…

The American preK-12 education system is struggling. Challenges resulting from navigating the global pandemic, the growing consciousness of the education system's role in perpetuating cycles of inequity for students furthest from justice, and the continual inability to scale innovation across a wide breadth of student profiles, are all evidence…

The problem addressed by this study was the minimal community college baseline data regarding faculty use and attitudes of universal design principles, known as inclusive teaching strategies, and the relationship to faculty years of teaching experience. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to assess faculty use and attitudes of…

Children with special needs may have less access to play due to the nature of their developmental delay or disability or their lack of experience with typically developing peers. Many preschools and kindergartens have reduced play in their daily schedules and elementary schools have reduced or eliminated recess (Jarrett et al., 2015; Zigler &…

This study evaluated whether a play-based, teacher-facilitated peer network intervention could improve basic social communication skills of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The study was conducted in a regular classroom, using the principles of peer mediation and an integrated playgroup model. A single-subject multiple baseline design…

The aim of this article is to contribute to a better conceptual and practical delimitation of inclusive education. A pedagogy that reacts to the need to face the dilemmas of difference. An interpretive and critical methodology with a documentary basis and a normative-pedagogical perspective is used. The results show a tension between theoretical…

The author argues that despite the vast proliferation of scientific research, our understanding of dyslexia is marked by serious weaknesses of conceptualization, definition, and operationalization that are not only unscientific but also result in impoverished practice in schools, social inequity in both understanding and provision for many…

The countries of the Pacific region are reforming their educational policies to include learners who have frequently been excluded from receiving any form of education. They face many challenges to include learners into their schooling systems. This article systematically identifies and reviews research and policy documents from the region and…

The Italian school system has a long tradition of inclusive education, starting in the 1970s with the first experiences of integrating students with disabilities into regular schools. Since then, legislation has developed to guarantee students with disabilities and other special educational needs the right to individualization and personalization.…

The dramatic increase of diversity on US college campuses has coincided with greater academic interest on the concept of inclusive leadership. The present literature provides a systematic analysis of literature from its forming phases in the early 1990s to its present condition. Priority publications were selected rigorously and then examined in…

Growing numbers of families now enrol their children in inclusive schools. The purpose of this research was to investigate the perceptions of 44 Australian parents, eight parents had children with disabilities and 36 had children who are typically developing. Data were collected using a questionnaire incorporating the Attitudes Towards…

This article explores the relationship between violence and education. It does this by referring to some of the literature in critical pedagogy that investigates how the structure and outcome of education as a social force can be violent in a number of ways. Having discussed how schools are violent in modes that are symbolic, structural, and…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to redefine quality in the context of "access" providing higher education institutions (HEIs), through a theoretical lens, in order to find solutions to the wicked problem of access vs quality and "inclusiveness vs excellence" debate in higher education (HE). Design/methodology/approach:…

In this article, we investigate a major, long-running policy intervention to combat educational exclusion in South Australia (SA): the Interagency Community Action Networks (ICAN)-Flexible Learning Options (FLO) policy and program agenda (ICAN-FLO). SA is unique for having the only bureaucratically systematised 'social inclusion' schooling…