This paper presents results of a comparative study about assistance services for supporting students with disabilities in regular schools in five European countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Portugal, Slovakia and the UK). Besides the analysis of relevant documents on assistance services, semi-structured interviews and focus groups with learning and…

The popularity of Participatory Action Research (PAR) increases the risk of tokenism and blurring the boundaries of what might be considered 'good' PAR. This became a pressing issue when we were invited by the City of Amsterdam to conduct PAR on digital inequality with vulnerable citizens in Amsterdam, within serious constraints of time and…

Normative management behaviors have resulted in the patterns of today--a lack of equity in leadership positions and policies that are less favorable toward women. Meanwhile, public service values, such as respect, equity, diversity, and inclusiveness, are central foci among the professional standards and norms within the public administration…

Introduction: Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are receiving considerable attention in higher education. Within psychology, the American Psychological Association has highlighted the importance of cultural diversity in both undergraduate and graduate curricula and charged educators with facilitating the development of cultural competence…

Background: In the debate on the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities, we find various proposals for dealing with sameness and difference. A more inclusive understanding of difference is needed to ensure that the perspectives of people with intellectual disabilities are taken into account. Method: This study involved in-depth…

More African Americans have enrolled into higher education; however, persistence in school has remained a challenge, especially in community college. Many African American students have been required to take remedial education to remedy deficits, but research on effectiveness of these courses remains unclear. Academic and social…

The Learning 2025: National Commission on Student-Centered, Equity-Focused Education--a collective of thought leaders in education, business, community, and philanthropy as convened by AASA, The School Superintendents Association--calls for holistic redesign of the public school system by 2025. The COVID-19 pandemic has served as a forcing…

This book uniquely offers the distilled wisdom of scores of instructors across ranks, disciplines and institution types, whose contributions are organized into a thematic framework that progressively introduces the reader to the key dispositions, principles and practices for creating the inclusive classroom environments (in person and online) that…

Multicultural education is a construct that has been very useful for many years in harboring sensitivities teachers need in addressing diverse students. Now the discipline needs refreshing. In the global society, the idea of multicultural education, a decidedly Western formation, needs to expand its conceptual boundaries. Salient issues in…

This book brings together respected international academics and practitioners from citizenship and drama to debate, share their experiences and plan a way forward for academic and professional best practice in drama and citizenship education for a democratic society. Drawing on international contributions, the chapters explore fundamental ideas…

This systematic research review identifies approaches of inclusive education concerning adolescents with autism spectrum (ASC) without intellectual disability (ID). The definitions of inclusion, whose perspectives are taken into account, approaches, and the implications suggested for best practices are reviewed in the articles included in this…

Several barriers exist that inhibit the success of students with disabilities in postsecondary education environments, one of which is the lack of self-advocacy skills to effectively request academic modifications and ask for other supports when needed. In this study, we used a single-subject multiple-probe across participants design to examine…

An inclusive classroom requires special and general education teachers to collaborate to facilitate the learning of students with disabilities. Often, the collaboration between special and general education teachers is ineffective due to the misunderstanding of roles, superiority, conflicts, and teaching strategies. These concerns inhibit the…

The concepts of inclusion and inclusive education for children with special education needs (SEN) have been widely accepted as imperative undertakings in the education spectrum. This book posits the practice of these ideas by scrutinizing the methodologies adopted by varied nations of the two regions towards inclusive education along with…

Purpose: It was the purpose of this sequential explanatory mixed methods study to identify and describe the leadership strategies that exemplary K-12 unified superintendents in Orange and Los Angeles counties in Southern California use to create an organizational culture of inclusiveness using Kennedy's (2008) 5 leadership qualities of cultural…