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Challenges to Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs in Organizations
Students with disabilities being educated in the general education classroom with no added supports.
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Inclusion: History, Models, and Why It Matters
Morgan Friedman (Loyola Marymount University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4093-0.ch010
Abstract
This chapter discusses the origin of inclusion, which is based in schooling children with special needs. It reviews the history, research, frameworks, and models, and what is needed to for inclusion to work. The chapter then reviews what is necessary to move inclusion beyond the classroom and into the workforce. Finally, the chapter looks at inclusion with the lens of diversity and equity, and not just for people with disabilities. One cannot discuss inclusion for all individuals without first considering how inclusion got started for people with disabilities and what makes it successful. This chapter provides an overview on inclusion of people with special needs in education in order to understand how to best include all individuals throughout their lives.
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Deaf Culture in Inclusive Schools
Students with disabilities are educated in the general education classroom and are expected to adapt to the environment with minimal accommodations.
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Mainstreaming Children in Development: A Thematic Frame Analysis of Print Media Discourse in East Africa
Integrating an issue on the agenda to become part and parcel of life of an entity.
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Gender and ICT Policy for Development and Empowerment: A Critique of a National ICT Policy
In this chapter mainstreaming means the integration of policies that will ensure an equal balance in accessing and using ICTs. It also means ensuring that both men and women have the opportunity to play an equal and meaningful role in the mainstream of national development whether it is in policy decision making or in education among others.
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