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Mazurek, Kas; Winzer, Margret – Education and Society, 2011
Positive attitudes held by general classroom teachers toward the principles of inclusion and toward students with disabilities are central in ensuring the successful progress of the inclusive movement. To underline the critical nature of teacher attitudes, this comparative study draws on a sample of the literature from western nations implementing…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Research, Educational Legislation, Positive Attitudes
Usher, Alex – Online Submission, 2006
Student aid policy around the developed world depends to varying degrees on the idea that the cost of post-secondary education needs to be subsidized. Despite the fact that governments around the world are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to support and widen participation in higher education, policymakers pay surprisingly little attention…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Student Financial Aid, Grants
Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica; White, Jan; de Almeida, Ana-Elisa Armstrong – International Journal of Educational Policy, Research, and Practice: Reconceptualizing Childhood Studies, 2006
A large portion of the early childhood literature in the area of cultural, racial, and linguistic diversity addresses the practices of institutions for young children, immigrant/refugee parents' understandings of their situation, and provides recommendations for more inclusive practices. This body of literature has proved very useful in bringing…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Minority Group Children, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Sauve, Lucie; Brunelle, Renee; Berryman, Tom – Policy Futures in Education, 2005
This article presents and discusses some results of the authors' analysis of international and national institutional documents related to environmental education from the 1970s to the present day. The aim of the study is to present a critical characterization of how environmental education is conceptualized and introduced through the ongoing…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Change, Sustainable Development, Educational Policy