ERIC Number: ED544523
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Dec
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-1324-9320
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Practitioners, Learning Difference and Regional and Remote Inclusive Education Settings: A Focused Analysis of the Research and Policy Literature
Hollitt, Julie A.
Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), Paper presented at the Joint Australian Association for Research in Education and Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association Conference (AARE-APERA 2012) World Education Research Association (WERA) Focal Meeting (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Dec 2-6, 2012)
This literature review interrogates current international writing about inclusive education (IE) in regional and remote settings, with explicit reference to Australian considerations, including the emergent National Curriculum. The task of this review has been to establish the types of knowledge reported about IE in minority, marginalized and "other" inclusive educational settings, and to locate the absences of knowledge that the current literature indicates. Finally, future directions for research into IE in minority educational settings are proposed. (Contains 4 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Rural Education, Learning Problems, Special Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Social Isolation, Social Distance, Access to Education, Urban Education, Metropolitan Areas, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Disabilities, National Curriculum, Educational Research
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Publication Type: Information Analyses; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Identifiers - Location: Africa; Asia; Australia; Canada; China; India; New Zealand; South America; United Kingdom (Great Britain); United States
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