Giftedness as a framework of inclusive education

Creating Digital Opportunities in IT Education: An Inclusive Framework

In the evolving Information Society (IS), the Information Technology (IT) skills are necessary to harness the power of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). The United Nations (UN) estimates that there are about one billion illiterate adults and 2−3 billion technological illiterates in the world. Not surprisingly, a majority of them are from information-poor regions, non-wired soc...

Inclusive education: a Pacific perspective

People of the Pacific are urged to note that inclusive education, as defined by UNESCO , is ‘a process of addressing and responding to the diversity of needs of all learners through increasing participation in learning ... and reducing exclusion within and from education’ (Booth, 996 cited in UNESCO, 2003:7). The objective is to support education for all, with special emphasis on removing barri...

Is Giftedness A Matter Of Justice? Explaining Implicit Attitudes Of Student Teachers Towards Giftedness Using A Social Justice Framework

Teachers’ conceptions of giftedness influence which students they identify as gifted and how they behave towards these students. Research findings are mixed, showing an overall positive, negative, or ambivalent view that considers gifted students as intellectually strong, but socio-emotionally inferior. Such misconceptions might lead teachers to focus on their students’ perceived socio-emotiona...

Giftedness and gifted education: the need for a paradigm change

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...