History depicts that in the past‚ apartheid and Christian national education policies meant that races and cultures were segregated in schools and resources were unevenly distributed‚ making the role and the task of the teacher extra difficult in terms of balancing between the workload and catering for all learners needs. Education is inherently political as it involves values and goals in relation to such fundamental questions as what kind of individual and society are we trying to shape? These
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On the other side of the spectrum‚ homogenous groups in inclusion classroom setting impede the progress of establishing an inclusive learning community. Academic leaders and administrators also understand that learning is impoverished when it occurs among homogenous groups of like-minded people (Tienda‚ 2013). For this reason the homogenous group classical teaching practice is out of the table to avoid segregating student based on their ethnic background and cultural identity. As an effective educator
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S W School District Curriculum Adoption Curriculum Design and Assessment March 2012 S W School District Curriculum Adoption Though curriculum is often looked upon as just what is being taught in the classroom‚ since I have begun to study it‚ I have found it to be much more. Curriculum is the accumulation of learning experiences provided to all students‚ lessons intended explicitly for the classroom and lessons
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OVERVIEW OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN SSA INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN RTE- SSA- AN OVERVIEW Background RTE mandates free and compulsory education to all children from 6-14 years of age. The key objective of RTE- SSA is Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE). Three important aspects of UEE are access‚ enrolment and retention of all children in 6-14 years of age. This goal of UEE‚ has further been facilitated by the Constitutional (86th Amendment) Act‚ making free and compulsory elementary
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questions the Namibian curriculum in light of Eisner’s statement. From Eisner ’s perspective the null curriculum is simply that which is not taught in schools. Somehow‚ somewhere‚ some people are empowered to make conscious decisions as to what is to be included and what is to be excluded from the overt (written) curriculum. Since it is physically impossible to teach everything in schools‚ many topics and subject areas must be intentionally excluded from the written curriculum. But Eisner ’s position
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1.1 Background: Unfolding the concept of Inclusive Education The field of special educational has undergone a tremendous transformation with the initiation of the inclusive movement and is characterised by the constant changes‚ controversies in terms of policy and practice as noted by Polat & Kisanji (2009). The Salamanca Statement and Framework for action on Special Educational Needs’ (1994‚ UNESCO) brought about a significant move towards inclusive education. It was designed as a part of the
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Is Australia an inclusive society? Reports from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2003a‚ 2003b‚ as cited in Ashman & Elkins‚ 2009‚ p. 7) show 25% of the Australian population is currently made up of migrants from around 200 countries. This fact demonstrates Australia‚ on the whole‚ has a tolerant and inclusive society. A society can be identified as a collection of people who live together in a relatively ordered community (Ashman & Elkins‚ 2009‚ p. 7). It could be said‚ Australia has one of
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But‚ in the current era educators learned that standards are not enough unless they ensure to increase students ’ performance. Therefore the concept of Curriculum mapping came into force by (Jacob‚ 1997) so that teachers can translate the standards into actual classroom practice as what and how they teach and assess students ’ performance. Curriculum mapping is the process of recording what content taught in the classroom‚ school or district over a period of time and the data provide a summary of a
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Module 5: Curriculum development process [Source: adaptation of www.freeclipart.com] In Module 2‚ 3 and 4‚ we discussed how philosophy‚ psychology‚ society and history events influence curriculum. In Modules 5‚ 6‚ 7 and 8‚ we will examine the different phases of the curriculum development process. The first phase is curriculum planning followed by curriculum design‚ curriculum implementation
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Curriculum Proposal Tittle of Curriculum Proposal: A BTEC in Sports Coaching and Development Working context: My role is as a teacher on our BTEC course as well as to oversee the foundation degree course in coaching. As we are a registered charity at the football club‚ we can use the power of the brand to incentivise learning in the classroom through the football club. Learners are inspired by the environment created and strive to excel in the subjects they are studying. So far we have
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