Towards an inclusive arts education

Towards an Inclusive

Second Life as an Arts Education Environment

While some students are engaging with online 3D virtual environments as creative social spaces, Virtual environments such as Second Life also provide opportunities to facilitate arts education in a flexible, connected and creative medium. Using a Second Life environment developed for Griffith University this study explored the use of a Second Life virtual environment to support the development ...

Attitudes towards both Students with Special Needs and Inclusive Education among Regular and Special Education Teachers: The Differences and Causes

Given that attitudes play an important role in teaching and learning, it is of the utmost importance to look into teachers’ attitude towards students, especially those with special needs, and detect any differences between regular and special education teachers. To this end, a sample of 107 special education teachers’ attitude towards such students was compared to that of the same number of reg...

Pre-service Secondary Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Inclusive Education

The attitudes held by pre-service teachers have been shown to affect their willingness and ability to implement an inclusive approach to education. A sample consisting of 193 pre-service secondary teachers enrolled in secondary education courses at an Australian university were surveyed to determine their attitudes towards inclusive education, with a particular focus on attitudinal changes acro...

Working towards inclusive education in South African classrooms

The predominant objective of any education system is one of providing quality education for all learners in order to enable them to realise their full potential, thereby enabling them to contribute to and participate in society. During the last two decades international policy development has turned the focus on providing quality education for all learners within the mainstream of education, th...