LIFE SKILLS AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

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...

Inclusive Education and Classroom Practice

HIV Surveillance: Life Skills Education Programme among in-school Adolescents

Introduction Reduction in HIV transmission needs continuous, comprehensive and effective communication channels to disseminate messages that will sustain efforts to motivate adolescents to engage in a range of options to reduce the risk of HIV infection. Life skills education, an integral part of school-based AIDS programs that include sexual and reproductive health information, has been a time...

Clinical Skills and Education

Despite the high prevalence of psychiatric and behavioral problems in primary care, many physicians receive little training in psychiatry. A model curriculum has been developed for the Federated Council for Internal Medicine Task Force on the Internal Medicine Residency Curriculum. A detailed description of the curriculum was outlined by Steven A. Cole and colleagues (General Hospital Psychiatr...

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...