Building Inclusive Education in K-12 Classrooms and Higher Education

Theories and Principles
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-6684-7370-2
Verlag: IGI Global

Buch, Englisch, 410 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 286 mm, Gewicht: 1185 g

Most people recognize the importance of inclusive education and hope to promote it everywhere at all levels and situations in education. However, the road to realizing this ideal is by no means a smooth one; due to this, further study is required.

The Handbook of Research on Global Movements Toward Inclusive K-12 and Higher Education Settings discusses various inclusive practices in K-12 classrooms and higher education all over the world and presents problems and challenges that educators are struggling to overcome. Covering key topics such as educational technology, global movement, and inclusive education, this major reference work is ideal for administrators, policymakers, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koreeda, Kiyoji

Tsuge, Masayoshi

Ikuta, Shigeru

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik

Über Autor(innen)

Shigeru Ikuta is a Senior Scholar (Special Researcher) at Institute of Human Culture Studies, Otsuma Women's University, Japan. He is Emeritus Professors of Tokyo Metropolitan University and Otsuma Women's University. He is awarded with 2011 SITE Outstanding Poster Award and 2020 SITE Outstanding Paper Award. He is an education technologist, teacher educator in science, and special educator with a focus on student learning and development based on communication aids. He completed his graduate work and earned a doctorate in science at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. He had been working as a Professor of Computation Chemistry at Tokyo Metropolitan University for twenty-nine years. He moved to University of Tsukuba and has started collaborative works with schoolteachers, affiliated with the University. He has been creating original handmade teaching materials with dot codes, eBooks with Media Overlays, and Augmented Reality in supporting the students' learning. He (now in collaboration with Professor Kiyoji Koreeda, Toyo University) has been involved in organizing a worldwide collaborative learning community with more than 250 school teachers both at the schools for special needs and the ordinary public schools, to develop original self-made teaching materials using the newly developed information and communication technology (ICT), and has conducted school activities with the school teachers, in partnership with the Japanese company Gridmark Inc. Ikuta has provided the school teachers with necessary software and tools, developed by Gridmark Inc. and himself, to create their original self-made teaching materials and their know-hows for free. Now, school teachers and researchers not only from Japan but also from the USA, China, Egypt, Korea, United Arab Emirates and Oman also join his community.