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The International Inclusive Education Research ( IIER ) panel is made up of researchers from Australia, Canada and the UK.
The purpose of the panel is to:
- collaborate in ongoing international projects including: research, consultancy, staff and student exchange;
- write and present position papers about the impact of policy and practice on inclusive education in international contexts and on innovative approaches to practice and research, and
- recommend a research agenda that acknowledges the strengths and shortcomings of the extant research and generates information needed to adequately prepare teachers and other professionals to support diversity in a wide-range of international educational contexts.
Our activities in 2009
- Dr. Umesh Sharma, Associate Professor Tim Loreman, Professor Chris Forlin, and Professor Chris Earle have been conducting collaborative international research on pre-service teacher sentiments, attitudes, and concerns about inclusive education. The results of these studies have been published in academic journals and presented at international conferences, and the project continues to be active.
- Associate Professor Joanne Deppeler, Professor Judy Lupart, Associate Professor Tim Loreman, and a large team of Canadian and Ukrainian scholars and practitioners have been working on a project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) aimed at improving inclusive education in Ukraine. International dialogue has prompted change such that inclusive education will be an important focus in teacher pre-service courses in Ukrainian universities from September of 2009.
- Professor Roger Slee, Professor Chris Forlin, Dr. Umesh Sharma, and Associate Professor Tim Loreman have commenced the initial phases of a research project aimed at producing instruments to measure pre-service teacher views on exclusion.
- Professor Chris Forlin, Associate Professor Tim Loreman, and Dr. Umesh Sharma continue to work on a research project examining pre-service teacher perceptions of self-efficacy in inclusive education. The project continues to be active, with the results to date being the development of a scale and an analysis of international demographic variables and self-efficacy.
- Associate Professor Tim Loreman, Associate Professor Joanne Deppeler, and retired Associate Professor David Harvey are working on a second edition of their book (originally published in 2009) for Allen and Unwin entitled Inclusive education: Supporting diversity in the classroom.
- Associate Professor Tim Loreman’s book ‘Respecting Childhood’ was published by Continuum Books in March of 2009.
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