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Meeting Some Challenges of Inclusive Education in an Age of Exclusion

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59595/ajie.01.2.2 Roger Slee The Victoria Institute for Education, Diversity & Lifelong Learning, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia (Received 24 March 2013, Final revised version received 14 June 2013) Exclusion is ingrained into the global social fabric in general and education in particular. This paper takes up the challenge of international agreements and conventions affirming Education …

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Changing Paradigms and Future Directions for Implementing Inclusive Education in Developing Countries

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59595/ajie.01.2.3 Chris Forlin Department of Learning Science, Hiroshima University/ Hong Kong Institute of Education (Received 04 October 2012, Final revised version received 13 December 2012) This paper reviews how the international trend to adopting an inclusive approach to education is impacting upon developing countries. Like all regions, developing countries are unique in their requirements. …

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Children with ASD as Part of the Learning Community in Three International Schools in Hong Kong: Practical Implications for Class Practice

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59595/ajie.01.2.4 Brenda Peters Department of Special Education and Counseling, Hong Kong Institute of Education Chris Forlin Department of Learning Science, Hiroshima University/ Hong Kong Institute of Education (Received 29 April 2013, Final revised version received 13 July 2013) Since the Salamanca Statement (UNESCO, 1994), there has been a global rise in the numbers of …

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Reforming Teacher Education for Inclusion in Developing Countries in the Asia Pacific Region

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59595/ajie.01.1.2 Umesh Sharma Faculty of Education, Monash University, Victoria, Australia Chris Forlin Faculty of Education and Human Development, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China Joanne Deppeler Faculty of Education, Monash University, Victoria, Australia Yang Guang-xue Faculty of Preschool & Special Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China (Received 11 September 2012, Final …

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Perspectives of students and parents about mainstreaming education for children with special needs in Bangladesh

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59595/ajie.01.1.3         Utpal Mallick Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh Kazi Sameeo Sheesh Institute of Educational Development, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh & Doctoral Student, University of Sussex, UK (Received 01 October 2012, Final revised version received 27 January 2013) This paper deals with the issue of mainstreaming children with special …

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Development of the Distributed Leadership Practice for Inclusive Education (DLPIE) Scale

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59595/ajie.01.1.4       Jahirul Mullicka Faculty of Education, Monash University, Victoria, Australia (Received 03 November 2012, Final revised version received 30 January 2013) Inclusive education reform is a continuous process and it requires all the members of a school community to accept that not all children are ready to learn the same thing …

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