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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 2008
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Prof Mel Ainscow has been appointed as chief adviser of the new Greater Manchester Challenge, a £50 million campaign over three years, to raise standards for children in schools across some of the most deprived areas of the region in the ten Greater Manchester local authorities. The programme will launch in April 2008 and will build on the experience of London Challenge, which has had a major impact on raising standards in schools in the most deprived parts of the capital.
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Professor Suzanne Carrington Queensland University of Technology has developed a Service-learning project which requires students to become involved in their community in order to use knowledge learned at university. This program involves reciprocal relationships with organizations in the greater Brisbane area in which the service reinforces and strengthens the learning in an academic unit on inclusive education, and the learning reinforces and strengthens the service. This program is a pathway in a fourth year unit on inclusive education in the Bachelor of Education Course. The QUT Service-learning Program is designed to foster empathy, inclusive beliefs and values and social-responsibility in pre-service teachers. The service activity is voluntary non-paid work.
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Judy Lupart, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Special Education, in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta, gave the 2008 Professorial Lecture entitled Achieving excellence and equity in Canadian schools on 18 February 2008.
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Joanne Deppeler will work with Professor Lupart and her Canadian research team and Ukrainian academics from the Institute of Special Pedagogic in the Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities in Ukraine project. The project is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The essence of this project is to build the knowledge capacity of government, educators, NGOs and consumers of disability services to work in partnership and jointly contribute to the development of inclusion related policies and services to support inclusive education of disabled children. The project will target children and youth with disabilities ages 0 - 18, although it is expected that the project will have a broad reaching impact on all children and families.
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Joanne Deppeler will present a paper entitled Accountability and capacity building: connecting national standards with a school-system model for improving teaching and learning, and participate in the 20th Anniversary Oxford Round Table , Balancing National and State Curricula: Trends and Choices, 20 -25 July, 2008, Oxford:Uk. This discussion forum arises in response to the growing concern that government mandates and testing regimes may result in educational systems that have unintended consequences that effect educational outcomes for some students and curriculum imbalances among arts, music sciences and mathematics.
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Julianne Moss is leading a major Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grant, Keeping connected. It is a research project investigating the social and educational experiences of young people whose schooling has been disrupted due to an ongoing health condition.
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