Digitalization and Inclusive Education: Common Ground

Links between inclusive education and inclusive research

In recent years, particularly since the Salamanca Statement (UNESCO, 1994), considerable attention has been given to inclusive education. The concept of inclusive research has also emerged (Walmsley and Johnson, 2003). Initially this was associated with people with learning disabilities but now has a wider application. The two concepts have some shared values and the links between inclusive edu...

Mathematics Education and Special Education: Searching for Common Ground and the Implications for Teacher Education

This article examines research literature that overlaps the fields of mathematics and special education, with a particular focus on students with disabilities at the middle and high school levels. We report the results of this literature by describing some of the inconsistencies or contradictions between the fields as well as the commonalities that exist in the research and recommendations. Fin...

Inclusive Education and Classroom Practice

Common ground

The fundamental message of Garrett Hardin's essay 'The Tragedy of the Commons' [1], recently re-visited in these pages by Peter Kareiva [2], is unassailable. If resources are available to all without restraint, they will be over-exploited. That is a simple tenet of population biology, encapsulated in theories of competitive interaction between individuals, and is an explanation for the well-kno...

Common Ground

This article explores the importance of the relationship between a teacher of meditation and his or her student. Mindfulness meditation is receiving a lot of attention in the psychotherapy literature currently. It is generally viewed as a technique that is taught in groups and then practiced individually by clients or participants. What does not appear to be generally understood is that the tea...