Educación inclusiva: abriendo puertas al futuro.


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La idea de situar a la escuela como motor social, hace recaer sobre la misma una responsabilidad que debe ser asumida con rigor y con valentía por parte de los distintos sectores que conviven en el contexto escolar.La Inclusión es tarea de todos, precisamente una de las claves de este proceso se sitúa en lo coral que deben ser todas las decisiones y acciones orientadas a conseguir y mantener contextos inclusivos. De ahí que palabras como colaboración, convivencia, reconocimiento, corresponsabilidad, son ideas que definen el proceso, siempre en marcha, siempre inacabado, hacia la inclusión. Desde el mismo momento que pensamos que hay personas o grupos que pueden ser excluidos, discriminados, que desde parámetros de justicia social es necesario orientar acciones para evitar esa segregación, estamos dando el primer paso hacia la inclusión. Si solo nos planteamos la inclusión como una meta, si pensamos en la dificultad de conseguir los recursos y que por ello no podemos avanzar, si nos quedamos en la idea que la inclusión es costosa desde el punto de vista económico. Estaremos quedándonos en las puertas.Desarrollar prácticas inclusivas, supone creatividad, iniciativa, empatía, confianza, cooperación, formación. El recurso principal es la propia persona. Transformar la realidad educativa, tiene un primer paso: transformar las “cabezas” de las personas implicadas: profesorado, familias, agentes sociales e instituciones. Sin olvidar en ningún momento la participación y el protagonismo del alumnado.La realidad está ahí, no es solo un bonito sueño. Basta con extender el brazo para alcanzarla. Pero ¡Alarga el brazo de una vez! No esperes que llegue sin tu participación, sin tu esfuerzo, sin tu implicación, sin tu compromiso. Y sí, claro está, también con tus sueños y tu esperanza.Este libro pretende acercarse a la realidad de la inclusión, abriendo puertas. Para ello desde un primer bloque de corte más reflexivo, en los siguientes se afrontarán realidades inclusivas desde distintos focos: la diversidad cultural, la diversidad funcional. Y, en este mundo marcado por las tecnologías, no podemos dejar de lado hablar sobre la aportación desde ese ámbito al proceso inclusivo.




Reflexionando sobre la educación inclusiva. Una apuesta de futuro


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Hablar sobre educación inclusiva hoy supone todo un reto dada la complejidad e incertidumbre que marcan el devenir de la sociedad actual. Sociedad del conocimiento, de la información, pero también una sociedad competitiva que genera nuevas brechas sociales entre aquellos grupos que por distintas razones no pueden competir en igualdad de condiciones. La diversidad es un rasgo y un reto de esta sociedad, las palabras equidad, justicia social, deben marcar las respuestas socioeducativas que permitan a todas las personas. De ahí el sentido de esta publicación, en la que se recogen aportaciones que surgen de la práctica de profesionales, que desde distintos países aportan visiones, experiencias y propuestas de actuación. El documento se configura en torno a 6 ejes temáticos: Intervención educativa, intervención social, formación del profesorado para la inclusión, la incorporación de las TIC, percepciones y cultura inclusiva, y por último una visión de la inclusión desde el ámbito internacional.







Policy, Experience and Change: Cross-Cultural Reflections on Inclusive Education


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This book represents an original and innovative series of insights, ideas and questions concerning inclusive education and cross-cultural understandings. Drawing on historical and cultural material, policy developments, legislation and research findings, the book provides a critical exploration of key factors including inclusive education, human rights, change, diversity and special educational needs. The contributors focus closely on how these factors are defined and experienced within particular societies.




Transformative Approaches to Sustainable Development at Universities


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This book documents and disseminates experiences from a wide range of universities, across the five continents, which showcase how the principles of sustainable development may be incorporated as part of university programmes, and present transformatory projects and programmes, showing how sustainability can be implemented across disciplines. Sustainability in a higher education context is a fast growing field. Thousands of universities across the world have signed declarations or have committed themselves to integrate the principles of sustainable development in their activities: teaching, research and extension, and many more will follow.




The Intentional Teacher


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Young children and teachers both have active roles in the learning processHow do preschoolers learn and develop? What are the best ways to support learning in the early years? This revised edition of The Intentional Teacher guides teachers to balance both child-guided and adult-guided learning experiences that build on children's interests and focus on what they need to learn to be successful in school and in life.This edition offers new chapters on science, social studies, and approaches to learning. Also included is updated, expanded information on social and emotional development, physical development and health, language and literacy, mathenatics, and the creative arts. In each chapter are many practical teaching strategies that are illustrated with classroom-based anecdotes.The Intentional Teacher encourages readers to- Reflect on their principles and practices- Broaden their thinking about appropriate early curriculum content and instructional methods- Discover specific ideas and teaching strategies for interacting with children in key subject areasIntentional teaching does not happen by chance. This book will help teachers apply their knowledge of children and of content to make thoughtful, intentional use of both child-guided and adult-guided experiences.




Child Friendly Schools Manual


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This Child-Friendly Schools (CFS) Manual was developed during three-and-a-half years of continuous work, involving the United Nations Children's Fund education staff and specialists from partner agencies working on quality education. It benefits from fieldwork in 155 countries and territories, evaluations carried out by the Regional Offices and desk reviews conducted by headquarters in New York. The manual is a part of a total resource package that includes an e-learning package for capacity-building in the use of CFS models and a collection of field case studies to illustrate the state of the art in child-friendly schools in a variety of settings.




Engaging People in Sustainability


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The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].




A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish


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A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.




Participatory Workshops


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This sourcebook is for all who work with others on participatory learning and change. Written in a spirit of critical reflection and serious fun, it provides 21 sets of ideas and options for facilitators, trainers, teachers and presenters, and anyone who organises and manages workshops, courses, classes and other events for sharing and learning ideas. It covers topics such as getting started, seating arrangements, forming groups, managing large numbers, helping each other learn, analysis and feedback, dealing with dominators, evaluation and ending, coping with horrors, and common mistakes.