Essays on Inclusion

Chavet Breslin

A Research Project Presented in Partial Fulfillment
Master of Education
Regis University
ABSTRACT
Over the past decades, there has been a significant shift in the perceived best practices in the field of special education. While the paradigm for special education, at one time, involved removing students with special needs from the classroom to receive specialized instruction from specifically trained practitioners, the social stigma and lack of academic progress pushed administrators to move toward a more inclusive philosophy of education. A meta-synthesis was performed of past quantitative and qualitative studies to determine what type of structure will best benefit special Continue reading...

Inclusion

Inclusion is a concept which has developed in the education systems of several countries around the world in the last three decades. Inclusion is a concept which calls for an education approach whereby all students irrespective of their mental, social or physical abilities are placed together in a conventional classroom. The aim of inclusion is bringing about a togetherness feeling contrary to the divisive feel which was brought about by exclusion (Forest & Pearpoint 1). In such an approach, children with disabilities are given the chance of studying together with ‘normal’ children in the same classroom. Proponents of this concept Continue reading...

Background

The inclusion of learners with special needs is gradually becoming a major concern to various governments (Holt, 2004). With the enactment of the Disability Discrimination act of 1992 and changes in community perceptions towards individuals with disability in Australia, mainstream primary educational institutions have had to prioritize children with disabilities’ inclusion (Forbes, 2007). Holt (2004) gives a social model definition of disability as the disadvantage or restriction of activity resulting from contemporary social organization which takes either little or no account of individuals with physical impairments thereby excluding them from mainstream social activities. Generally, children are considered learning Continue reading...

Issues in Special Education: Inclusion of Students with Special Needs

Background
In the world over, the concept of inclusion of people with disability, particularly inclusion in education, is increasingly becoming a vital issue of concern as several attempts are being made to offer people with disability similar opportunities that are available to people who do not have any impairment of any kind. Ideally, children are considered disabled in learning if, for some reasons, they are not able to learn normally as their counterparts with similar ages and as Holt (2004) documents, disabled are not able to use the same learning facilities as the ones used by their counterparts. Additionally, Continue reading...

Arguably, inclusion in special education continues to hoist many contests in the public arena. The concept relates to both social values, sense of personal worth, as well as education. Many scholar questions if inclusion in special schools gives children equal opportunity. Perhaps, legislation in most nations encourages inclusion of students with special needs to be in mainstream schools. In fact, the conception is propelled by arguments that inclusion will improve education performance, quality of life, as well as social development. As a matter of fact, little research has been conducted on inclusion of kids with Autism. Actually, autism is Continue reading...

Arguably, inclusion remains one of the controversial issue and concept in education. This is because it is related to social and educational values, as we as influencing individual worth. In most cases, inclusion has been the centre of debate, in which many people ask if children equality is valued, the real meaning of inclusion, as well as the existence of inappropriate groups to inclusion. As a matter of fact, the issue has advocates who are for, while others are against. Certainly, it is somehow realistic to oppose the inclusion in special education.
Undoubtedly, those individuals against inclusion in special Continue reading...

The direction which the globe is heading mandates that social boundaries which existed in the past should be blurred progressively and finally, every bit of discrimination and categorization should be eliminated. The first was abolition of the slave trade to make all men equal and free. Next followed the emancipation of women to recognize their ability to contribute to society and build an identity for themselves. What followed next was the condemnation of racial segregation. Men of all types of color have equal access to all types of services, jobs and residential locations. This humanitarian wind has brought dignity Continue reading...

Analysis of education policy in the USA

Analysis of education policy in the USA
Promoting diversity is one of most important issues in education worldwide. Complexity of elaborating on promotion of diversity in education lies in the fact that various types of diversity are singled out with respect to different criteria, namely language, cultural, epistemological and social diversity (Tchibozo, 2012, 3).Furthermore, supporting diversity requires comprehensive alignment of such strategic actions as establishing benchmark criteria and institutions for diversity, continuously improving institutional climate with regard to the needs of the students with different backgrounds and experiences, emphasizing diversity in institutional leadership, coordinating diversity-related projects, led by Continue reading...

Executive Summary

The Muslim society in the West and in America is quite small as compared to other groups of people. These groups often live under the close observation of the society which in a way sees them as potential trouble makers. Their religious orientation and the culture often make them sidelined since they cannot easily merge with the others. This essay seeks to explain how this social ice can be broken, thereby incorporating the Muslims fully into the society.

Introduction

In the current times, development in science and technology has seen to the improvement of many aspects of life. Transport Continue reading...

Introduction

Context and Thesis Statement
Although Western countries have issued acts to support students with special needs to be taught in normal schools, as part of the inclusive education program, schools are still reluctant in receiving students with different types of disabilities, facing various challenges that refer to the prestige of the school, to meeting inclusion standards and regular examinations in this purpose or to installing increased bureaucratic educational demands (Konza, 2008). Schools’ attitudes towards the children with special educational needs vary between aiming for an inclusive education and between maintaining the elitist standards, where inclusive education is not an Continue reading...

Inclusion essentially refers to the concept in which students and learners are placed in the most non restrictive environment of learning. This would occur despite the differences in the students arising from disabilities in some of them. Inclusion, therefore, departs from the practice of exclusion in which disabled students are restricted and separated from the normal learning environment. The rationale behind inclusion is the argument that the students would be exposed to a non restrictive world ultimately. Consequently, it beats logic to educate them under restriction and then later release them into the free world. The inclusion advocates insist Continue reading...

Inclusion of children with special needs

Introduction
Over the past two centuries, there has been an incredible growth and development in education, and this has, particularly, been the case in childhood education. This is due to the fact that the education stakeholders have been in good positions to not only develop the quality of education, but also the strategies through which education will be promoted. One of the most essential things to note in this case, for example, include the fact that education has incredibly advanced in the past two centuries, in terms of delivery and consideration. Children with special needs, for example, have been Continue reading...

Introduction

Demographic composition of unions has been changing in the past decades. More women now form part of the workforce. Women can be found in most, if not all, lines of work. Minority ethnic groups have also increased in numbers. Ethnic composition of workers continues to shift. Migrant workers have become a distinct minority group. New types of workers, such as freelancers, home workers and service workers are also emerging as distinct labor groups.
Unions operate through the concept of agency. Unions represent their member employees to the employer and regulatory bodies. Effective representation requires the consideration of different interests, Continue reading...

Validation of Principal Efficacy Survey– Rationale for Adding New Questions to the

ABSTRACT
In the process of validating principal self-efficacy connected to the corroborated Megan Tschannen-Moran Survey, important gaps in the questionnaire exist. The academic work presented here provides the essential and missing questions needing asked by principals in assessing the efficacy of his/her performance as an administrator, innovator, and advocate for quality educational practices in the 21st century. These suggested questions look at principal management abilities, consider the diversity of the demographics of public school learners and their families, professional development necessary for instructors' ability for enhancing teaching, and the critical acknowledgement educational technology.
Key Words: principal, self-efficacy, survey, education, Continue reading...

The delivery of special education in today’s world presents a challenging environment for policy makers as well as implementers of education. Characterized by diversity and several emerging issues, special education has to be approached from an integrated perspective in order to achieve the best outcomes. The issues involved include inclusion, diversity of disability as well as diversity in teacher education, modes of carrying out assessment, identification of disabilities, instruction and intervention methodologies. Other issues include teacher and administrator preparation to meet various challenges. The texts for the annotated bibliography are drawn across these issues. Many of them are Continue reading...

Abstract

This paper consists of three reports from interviews conducted with service providers in the education sector. The interviewees have all dealt with special or exceptional students. They were subjected to a series of questions that sought to give more insight into the quality of service provision in the education sector with particular focus on exceptional students. The responses given by the interviewees were not altered in any way.

Introduction

The scope of education is getting wider and wider every day. The number of stakeholders involved in the education sector has increased and so has the scope of duties and responsibilities Continue reading...

International arbitration allows international business persons from different legal backgrounds to amicably solve their grievances. Parties to a contractual agreement or in an international relationship seek an impartial party who carries out the adjudicatory process. The resolution by the arbitrators is usually binding and carries a provision of arbitration in future contractual disputes. International Arbitration has over the last half century gained popularity because of the expeditious nature of the method. Businesses and international traders prefer international arbitration to the domestic legal process. A dispute would usually be handled under the judicial system under which the dispute occurred. Resolving Continue reading...

Arguably, understanding culture is crucial to educators in all fields of human life. An individual cultural orientation takes place in every aspect of human interaction. Due to globalization and diversity, culture and cultural concepts has been made more complex. Often, people make assumptions on individual belief and behaviors based on one cultural indicator, which is specifically ethnicity. In the real sense, global identities are complex and diverse weave of various cultural affiliations that individuals belongs influence our behaviors, beliefs, as well as values. Culture is a learned behavior, and it surrounds all activities of human nature. Its complexity includes Continue reading...

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Summary

In the lesson entitled, “Is Full Inclusion the Least Restrictive Environment?” it compared two opposing cases on inclusion of persons with disabilities in regular schools. The first case tells a story of Ro who has successfully adapted in the education systems of inclusive schools since preparatory school to college. Her story reflects an empowered person despite her disability through the inclusive learning systems of schools she attended. She excelled in her schools especially in communication. She gained many friends from her classmates who learned life lessons from her story. Ro’ Continue reading...

Multicultural Australia

In his article “A Linguist’s Vision for Multicultural Australia”, Professor Michael Clyne comments upon the Australian Government’s social inclusion policies, observing that they are ambiguous and confuse when it comes to fairly representing the Australian minorities in the society. Clyne discusses about Howard’s and Rudd’s governmental plans for social inclusion, which did not contain a multicultural dimension, references to including the languages of minorities in schools and concrete plans of sharing the minorities’ values and traditions throughout Australian society.
The author perceives the problem of social inclusion beyond its immediate meaning of supporting the vulnerable Continue reading...

The main theme for the book entitled “The Spirit Level: Why equal societies almost always do better” was about how inequality can affect even those who are not well off. This information is vital for someone in the planning profession because the economy and the labor force affects the job outlook as well as the other important factors in a certain area. The book was well written and was done with extensive years of research, not focusing on only one country, but doing a case study on many. When it comes to someone from the planning profession, it is Continue reading...

'Setting the Direction' Framework for Inclusive Education in Alberta
The ‘Setting the Direction’ framework involves the construction of one inclusive system of education that caters for the educational needs of every student. This should be inclusive of children with various learning needs. It is a way of acting and thinking that shows universal acceptance of all students, regardless of their situations. In Alberta, it means the formulation of an approach based on values that will lead to the acceptance of responsibility for all students. Inclusive education is essential for the development of society as a whole.
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General Information

The observation took place on 03/06/2012 at the Whitfield county school in Dalton for 3 hrs. The address was 6476 and the phone number (212) 401-61-81. The children are autistic and with an inclusive individualized education program. The class consists of twelve students with two autistic and with a teacher student ratio of twelve to one. The student’s ages varied from nine to eleven years. The classroom is well arranged with the Paraprofessional`s desk right next to the two autistic kid which seemed intentional,. (Lessey, 2004).

Physical Setting

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Integrating Social Media in Education

Introduction
This paper is a review of the article by Hadewijch Vanwynsberhe and Pieter Verdengem dubbed “Integrating Social Media in Education”. Essentially, the article proposes that education on social media is paramount for contemporary students based on the premise that they are social media users. Centrally, the inclusion of social media education in the curricula would be benched on four main objectives. First, so that the students can be capable of searching for information on social media sites and more importantly, they can be able to deal with the information that they encounter in such sites. Secondly, that students Continue reading...

Is the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance a violation of the 1st amendment or an acceptable traditional expression?
The phrase “under God” in the pledge of allegiances has been embroiled by endless controversy over years. Some professionals and legal experts are opposed to this idea for various reasons, while others support the inclusion of the clause in the Pledge of Allegiance. Campaigns to alter the clause have also been live and vibrant ever since its introduction in 1892. The debate on the clause under God revolves around numerous controversial religion and royalty questions. Some religious leaders Continue reading...

Abstract

This paper presents an exhaustive review of data and literature pertaining to the music education of students with special needs. The paper will start by looking at the increasing number of special needs children within the education fraternity and the obvious implications of this. The paper will then delve into one subject of education that is music and focus on one major perspective, and that is the importance of adequately preparing music educators to teach students with special needs. In relation to this, a comprehensive literature review will be conducted ion some of the established facts and theories regarding Continue reading...

Introduction

Migraine is characterized by recurrent moderate to severe headaches and autonomic nervous system symptoms such as aura. The headache pulsates on one side of the head only. Additional symptoms of migraine include sensitivity to light and sound, nausea and vomiting. According to Robbins and Lipton, migraines are caused by both genetic and environmental factors and affect up to 15% of the global population at some point in life.1 Typically, the severe headache persist for over two hours but may last up to three days.

Pathophysiology of Migraines

Migraines are chronic neurovascular disorder. Goadsby asserts that the condition starts in the brain and Continue reading...

Management at Sprint

Management at SPRINT
Introduction
Sprint Nextel Corporation is a based in the United States and it is engaged in telecommunication business. Sprint Nextel Corporation was founded in the year 1899, by Jason Brown and Cleyson Brown. The corporation has been operating as Sprint Corporation until the year 2005when it underwent branding to Sprint Nextel Corporation. The corporation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and it mainly specialises in the provision of both wire line and wireless communications networks.
Management comprises of the following various function, which include organising, directing, staffing, planning, controlling and leading. All the activities Continue reading...

When talking about diversity, people always tend to define it in terms of difference in race, sex, socioeconomic status, religion, etc. and the treatment of other people in relation to these differences. When taken merely from the context of society, diversity would only be viewed as discrimination by prototypes. Prototypes refer to the standardized mindset of people from other culture, race, religion, etc. towards particular people. For instance, black people are viewed as slaves and as bad people, even if they are not at all or maybe not every black person is. Making prototypes is a social issue that Continue reading...

Introduction

Diversity refers to the practice of understanding, acknowledging, accepting, celebrating and valuing differences among people with regard to class, ethnicity, age, physical and mental prowess, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and public assistance status (Green, López, Wysocki and Kepner, 2013). In the current global scenario when the driving forces of globalization like communication, transportation, advent of technologies, transnational companies and internet have diminished boundaries, the work place environment has become extremely diverse with people of various cultures, beliefs and backgrounds interacting with each other on a daily basis on account of work and business. The demography in USA Continue reading...

California Lutheran University

Rayan Azhari
Chapter I

Introduction

Succession planning is the process of identifying, recruiting, and training employees of an organization in order to equip them with skills necessary for enabling them to take up future top management positions. It entails training and evaluation processes to ensure that the respective employees are capable of effectively and efficiently handling all the management and leadership issues, they may face in the course of duty.
Succession planning is an important part of everyday organization activities and, as a result, all organizations whether small; medium sized or even large must prepare for future succession possibilities. Effective Continue reading...

Hitchings (4) elucidate that the well-established dictionaries produced by lexicographers in English are within the inner circle depicting England, America, and Australia. The Oxford family, Cambridge family, and Collins family dictionaries are popular in Britain and Commonwealth countries. Recently, the American Heritage, Webster family, and Macquarie family of dictionaries from Australia appear to shelve the major bookstores in many countries. Currently, Lynch (7) observes that there is a global competition in the lexicographic market place where people embrace dictionaries and find it hard to work without them. The English dictionaries base on the traditional canon that helps in the Continue reading...

Chapter I

Introduction
Succession planning is the process of identifying, recruiting, and training employees of an organization in order to equip them with skills necessary for enabling them to take up future top management positions. It entails training and evaluation processes to ensure that the respective employees are capable of effectively and efficiently handling all the management and leadership issues, they may face in the course of duty.
Succession planning is an important part of everyday organization activities and, as a result, all organizations whether small; medium sized or even large must prepare for future succession possibilities. Effective succession planning ensures Continue reading...

Impact of Future Derivatives on Stock Market Volatility

Derivatives has been the talk of the financial world after it was accused as the primary reason for such a deep financial crisis that affected the global economy in 2007. Thus, the modelling of asset returns and judging the volatility of stock market and whether the derivatives have a substantial effect on stock market volatility, is still the key task for every finance professional as it provides much needed on risk patterns involved in investment process. The Finance Gurus propose that stock market normally exhibit high levels of price volatility and cause concerns to the investor regarding unpredictable outcomes, Continue reading...

Introduction

Data migration entails the procedures involved in the transfer of data between types of storage, format types as well as computer based systems as a major consideration in the implementation of systems, their upgrade or consolidation. Data migration is normally performed in a programmatic manner so as to attain automation in migration so as to free up human resources from taxing tasks (Sudipto. et al. 2010). Data migration may be undertaken for several reasons such as replacement of upgrade of server and storage equipment, consolidation of website platforms, maintaining of servers as well as relocation of data centers when Continue reading...

Historical Background

Healthcare institutions in United States and France have been encountering challenges of unprecedented scope. The increase in the number of elderly in the two countries has not only threatened to increase the cost of managing the healthcare sector, but has also led to the inflation rate. In reference to the current trend in the two countries healthcare systems, researchers and other healthcare professionals have raised their fear that the ever-increasing technologies and expensive medical treatment are likely to wreck havoc on public spending priorities. The increase in healthcare spending in United States of America is also likely to interfere Continue reading...

The education system is supposed to aid in various levels of child development. Of great importance is the expansion of the child’s intellectual capabilities. However, there are also other important aspects of development which the education system should achieve in children. Extra curricula activities are fundamental in the growth of the child just as the character development is also important. The character of the children is aimed to be positively influenced so as to produce better individuals who will run the country’s affairs. The character of an individual can be said to entail their attitudes, ethics and Continue reading...

Introduction

Corporate social responsibility refers to the ability of businesses doing well in terms of performance and at the same time doing well especially to in relation to the immediate environment (Campbell, Hollingsworth, & Lindberg, 1991, p. 5). CSR involves the process of aligning long term business strategies with operations to universally achieve sustainable and positive outcomes. The main beneficiaries of CSR practices by firms are clients, suppliers, shareholders, employees, and the environment with no particular meaning derived from the order. Practicing of CSR is an essential input by responsible firms. Firms all over the world are engaging in CSR Continue reading...

Abstract

The public sector corruption is an impediment to economic growth and advancement and a focal barrier to effective service delivery. This paper will provide the findings of a chronological review on micro level anti-corruption strategies’ effectiveness that receive implementation in some of the developing countries. The narrative synthesis approach will be employed to synthesize the extracted data. The review will focus on the significance between interventions that created a change in the system’s underlying rules and those that utilized incentives and monitoring mechanisms. Incentive based and monitoring interventions either non-financial or financial have a corruption reduction potential, even Continue reading...

Initial Intra-organizational Bargaining and Attitudinal Structuring Processes

Introduction
Attitudinal structuring and intra-organizational bargaining are mainly applied in the determination and distribution of rewards. With an attitudinal structuring approach, the main goal is to influence the attitudes of the participants towards each other. The intra-organizational process seeks to increase the consensus among the participants.
My own starting point tends to put additional emphasis on the rights of the immigrant workers. The team members’ starting point focuses on the management rights clause. Then this is followed by handling issues regarding the protection of immigration workers and wages increase. The wages increase is placed at 6% each year. My Continue reading...