Investigando los caminos a la inclusión: las aulas abiertas especializadas


Book Description

La construcción de escuelas para todos es uno de los retos de la sociedad del siglo XXI, que se alcanzará gracias a una educación inclusiva y equitativa que haga efectivo el derecho a una educación de calidad para todo el alumnado. Así lo plantea la Agenda 2030 a través de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, que pretenden marcar el rumbo educativo y cultural de las primeras décadas del nuevo siglo y responder a sus principales desafíos sociales. En concreto, la consecución del Objetivo 4, «Garantizar una educación de calidad, inclusiva y equitativa y promover las oportunidades de aprendizaje permanente para todos», contribuirá notablemente a este fin, por lo que es indispensable trabajar en pro de su consecución. Y ese es, precisamente, el propósito de este libro, dedicado a investigar los caminos que deben seguir las aulas abiertas especializadas para que el alumnado escolarizado en ellas viva plenamente la inclusión educativa. A estas aulas asisten discentes con dificultades de aprendizaje significativas que requieren apoyos extensos y generalizados durante todo su proceso de escolarización. La escuela ordinaria ha de garantizar a este alumnado el derecho a la educación en condiciones de equidad y de calidad, lo cual no admite discusión en un país democrático. Explorar caminos hacia la inclusión ha de ser una parte consustancial a la educación. Se trata de que el alumnado que asiste a las aulas abiertas pueda educarse junto a sus compañeros en las aulas ordinarias, de modo que en los centros educativos se formen personas diversas en contextos diferentes, que es el fin de la educación inclusiva.




Investigando los caminos a la inclusión


Book Description

La construcción de escuelas para todos es uno de los retos de la sociedad del siglo XXI, que se alcanzará gracias a una educación inclusiva y equitativa que haga efectivo el derecho a una educación de calidad para todo el alumnado.Así lo plantea la Agenda 2030 a través de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, que pretenden marcar el rumbo educativo y cultural de las primeras décadas del nuevo siglo y responder a sus principales desafíos sociales. En concreto, la consecución del Objetivo 4, «Garantizar una educación de calidad, inclusiva y equitativa y promover las oportunidades de aprendizaje permanente para todos», contribuirá notablemente a este fin, por lo que es indispensable trabajar en pro de su consecución.Y ese es, precisamente, el propósito de este libro, dedicado a investigar los caminos que deben seguir las aulas abiertas especializadas para que el alumnado escolarizado en ellas viva plenamente la inclusión educativa. A estas aulas asisten discentes con dificultades de aprendizaje significativas que requieren apoyos extensos y generalizados durante todo su proceso de escolarización. La escuela ordinaria ha de garantizar a este alumnado el derecho a la educación en condiciones de equidad y de calidad, lo cual no admite discusión en un país democrático.Explorar caminos hacia la inclusión ha de ser una parte consustancial a la educación. Se trata de que el alumnado que asiste a las aulas abiertas pueda educarse junto a sus compañeros en las aulas ordinarias, de modo que en los centros educativos se formen personas diversas en contextos diferentes, que es el fin de la educación inclusiva.




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.




Flip Your Classroom


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Learn what a flipped classroom is and why it works, and get the information you need to flip a classroom. You’ll also learn the flipped mastery model, where students learn at their own pace, furthering opportunities for personalized education. This simple concept is easily replicable in any classroom, doesn’t cost much to implement, and helps foster self-directed learning. Once you flip, you won’t want to go back!




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].




Boundaries


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In this expanded and revised edition of a fresh and original case-study textbook on environmental ethics, Christine Gudorf and James Huchingson continue to explore the line that separates the current state of the environment from what it should be in the future. Boundaries begins with a lucid overview of the field, highlighting the key developments and theories in the environmental movement. Specific cases offer a rich and diverse range of situations from around the globe, from saving the forests of Java and the use of pesticides in developing countries to restoring degraded ecosystems in Nebraska. With an emphasis on the concrete circumstances of particular localities, the studies continue to focus on the dilemmas and struggles of individuals and communities who face daunting decisions with serious consequences. This second edition features extensive updates and revisions, along with four new cases: one on water privatization, one on governmental efforts to mitigate global climate change, and two on the obstacles that teachers of environmental ethics encounter in the classroom. Boundaries also includes an appendix for teachers that describes how to use the cases in the classroom.




Overcoming Autism


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There have been huge advances in our ability to diagnose autism and in the development of effective interventions that can change children’s lives. In this extraordinary book, Lynn Kern Koegel, a leading clinician, researcher, and cofounder of the renowned Autism Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara, combines her cutting-edge expertise with the everyday perspectives of Claire LaZebnik, a writer whose experience with a son with autism provides a rare window into the disorder. Together, they draw on the highly effective “pivotal response” approach developed at the center to provide concrete ways of improving the symptoms of autism and the emotional struggles that surround it, while reminding readers never to lose sight of the humor that lurks in the disability’s quirkiness or the importance of enjoying your child. From the shock of diagnosis to the step-by-step work with verbal communication, social interaction, self-stimulation, meltdowns, fears, and more, the answers are here-in a book that is as warm and nurturing as it is authoritative.




The Bilingual Family


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An up-to-date, accessible guide for parents of bilingual children.




World Anthropologies


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Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.