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- Title: School and Classroom Practices in Inclusive Education in Australia.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 15, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 227 KB
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Education in Australia is a state and territory concern (Department of Education, Science and Training, 2006a). Among the commonwealth, state, and territory legislation and agreements, "The Adelaide Declaration on the National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-first Century" stands out as one of the key documents that directs both government and nongovernment schools (Department of Education, Science and Training, 2006b). This declaration, signed by all Government Ministers of Education in the city of Adelaide in 1999, identifies the "common and agreed goals for schooling" and aims to provide guidance to education authorities and schools about the desired learning outcomes for students. One of the central tenets of the Declaration is that "schooling should be socially just" (Department of Education, Science and Training, 2006b, unpaged). Such a tenet is consistent with the principle of inclusive education that has been adopted by the commonwealth, state, and territory education departments throughout Australia (van Kraayenoord, Elkins, Palmer, & Rickards, 2000). This article describes practices in inclusive education in Australian schools and classrooms. In discussing the changes that schools have made in order to be inclusive and responsive to student diversity, the author refers to one Australian school and its re-organization and also to recent Australian research on building inclusive school cultures. With respect to the changes that need to be made to classrooms, the author highlights the work of Australian researchers and authors and their descriptions of teachers' pedagogical practices of differentiated instruction and Universal Design for Learning that are consistent with delivering inclusive education. Differentiated instruction comprises modifications to the curriculum, teaching structures, and teaching practices in combination that take into account the individual differences and needs of students. Universal Design for Learning is defined here as the conscious and deliberate planning of units and lessons so that all students have access to, and can participate in, the curricula, and can grow in their achievement of learning outcomes.
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