Opening eyes onto inclusion and diversity / Susan Carter; Professor Lindy-Anne Abawi; Professor Jill Lawrence, Associate Professor Charlotte Brownlow, Renee Desmarchelier, Melissa Fanshawe, Kathryn Gilbey, Michelle Turner, and Jillian Guy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Susan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education.

Educational equalization--Australia.

Educational equalization.

Inclusive education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 338 pages) : colour illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toowoomba, Australia : University of Southern Queensland, 2019.

Summary:

In Australia and internationally much still needs to occur to promote inclusive practices in education and society with many educators not feeling equipped to recognise or appreciate diversity or cater effectively for inclusion (Hardy & Woodcock, 2015). It is into this space that a University of Southern Queensland team of researchers, practitioners, and academics intends to contribute an open textbook “Opening Eyes onto Inclusion and Diversity”. With embedded audio–visual components, the Open Textbook is designed to enhance the quality of the reader’s experience with each chapter posing key understandings underpinning inclusion and diversity. Readers are encouraged to answer questions on culture, special learning needs, varied educational contexts, gender diversity and more. The key expected outcome of this open textbook is to engage readers in making meaning of inclusion and diversity and applying their learning to their own individual contexts.

Contents:

Foreword / Susan Carter

1. Introducing the key ideas / Professor Lindy-Anne Abawi

2. Differing childhoods: Transgressing boundaries through thinking differently / Associate Professor Charlotte Brownlow and Lindsay O'Dell

3. Celebrating diversity: Focusing on inclusion / Professor Lindy-Anne Abawi; Melissa Fanshawe; Kathryn Gilbey; Cecily Andersen; and Christina Rogers

4. Opening eyes onto diversity and inclusion in early childhood education / Michelle Turner and Amanda Morgan

5. Fostering first year nurses’ inclusive practice: A key building block for patient centred care / Professor Jill Lawrence and Natasha Reedy

6. Positioning ourselves in multicultural education: Opening our eyes to culture / Renee Desmarchelier and Jon Austin

7. Creating an inclusive school for refugees and students with English as a second language or dialect / Susan Carter and Mark Creedon

8. Opening eyes to vision impairment: Inclusion is just another way of seeing / Melissa Cain and Melissa Fanshawe

9. Setting the scene: The importance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural perspectives in education (the danger of the single story) / Melissa Fanshawe; Professor Lindy-Anne Abawi; and Jillian Guystory)

10. Conclusion / Professor Jill Lawrence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references.

CC BY-NC 4.0 cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Open, viewed December 02, 2022).

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access