Marcella Turner-Cmuchal and Stuart Aitken
Within today’s information and knowledge society, learners with disabilities and/or special education needs (SEN) are among the groups most likely to encounter barriers to…
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Within today’s information and knowledge society, learners with disabilities and/or special education needs (SEN) are among the groups most likely to encounter barriers to accessing and using ICT, while at the same time the essential purpose of using ICT in education for learners with disabilities and/or SEN is to promote equity in educational opportunities.
This chapter considers two key issues:
Legislation and policy focussing upon rights and entitlements to ICT as an educational equity issue;
Access to appropriate ICTs within an accessible and sustainable ICT infrastructure for learners with disabilities and/or SEN.
Legislation and policy focussing upon rights and entitlements to ICT as an educational equity issue;
Access to appropriate ICTs within an accessible and sustainable ICT infrastructure for learners with disabilities and/or SEN.
In the chapter, how international and European level policy impacts upon the use of ICT in inclusive education will be discussed, followed by the presentation of a profile of a fictitious learner with disabilities who uses ICT as a key tool for accessing educational and inclusive learning opportunities. The case study will be used to exemplify the sorts of issues apparent in many different policy and practice situations across Europe.
Based on this discussion, a consideration of the use of ICT in inclusive education as a tool to enable all learners to be empowered in their learning is presented. This discussion leads to the identification of three potential policy levers that should be further exploited in attempts to address the digital divide and ensure all learners benefit from ICT as a tool for accessing inclusive learning opportunities:
Public procurement;
A widespread programme of training for all stakeholders;
School level policies and action plans for ICT.
Public procurement;
A widespread programme of training for all stakeholders;
School level policies and action plans for ICT.
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The purpose of this paper is to indicates the history and nature of Library Review over 80 years.
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The purpose of this paper is to indicates the history and nature of Library Review over 80 years.
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A chronological narrative highlights the main themes and personalities involved in the history of the journal.
Findings
Library Review has changed in nature and outlook since its foundation although many of its professional fundamentals remain unchanged.
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Discusses the history of one of the longest running library journals and as such should be of practical interest to library historians and those interested in journal publishing.
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Celebrates the 80th anniversary of Library Review, written by a former editor, the second‐longest‐serving incumbent at the journal.
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Steve Walker and Mette Bunting
In this chapter, we will look at how the indirect approach can enable us to find a way to learn about young people's lives. The setting for this chapter is informal youth work…
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In this chapter, we will look at how the indirect approach can enable us to find a way to learn about young people's lives. The setting for this chapter is informal youth work, reminding us of the value of a wide range of practices with young people, and the findings are equally relevant to formal and informal education as guiding principles for good practice. We will look at the skillful interactions practitioners establish with young people and how they can be developed and promoted. Reflective practice for practitioners is identified as beneficial in adding the value of young people's voice, whilst building relationships. The nature of young people's participation and power is argued to benefit from a co-constructed and socio-cultural understanding; majoring on the importance of context, indirect method and equality literacy framework. We will suggest how the indirect approach can improve young people's lives in schools and/or youth provision.
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Jan Dutkiewicz and Linda Duxbury
The purpose of this paper is to test the validity of a set of best practice principles for managing transformational organizational change by applying them to a specific change…
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The purpose of this paper is to test the validity of a set of best practice principles for managing transformational organizational change by applying them to a specific change initiative in the media. It also aims to examine whether prescriptions for effective change leadership (traditionally confined to single leaders) apply to a situation and organization where there are three distinct leader roles.
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The paper takes the form of a case study of a major change initiative undertaken at a leading Canadian newspaper.
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The paper shows that multiple, relatively autonomous leaders can lead a successful and unified change given specific organizational and environmental conditions. It also concludes that the generally accepted best practice of change leadership does not necessarily apply to a newspaper environment and posits that, in certain circumstances, a major change initiative can succeed despite running counter to the prevalent prescriptions in the literature.
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The conclusions drawn may be limited to organizations in the news media or those with similar organizational structures.
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The paper suggests shortcoming of existing normative leadership theories, seeks to explain why this is the case, and makes numerous suggestions for further study.
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The paper challenges orthodox assumptions and theories about leader roles and necessary qualities in leaders in successful organizational change. It extends understanding of change processes in the news media, which is under‐studied. It also suggests the applicability, but also relative insufficiency, of existing change theory as pertains to the media industry.
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A recent survey on book purchases was published by Sales Research Service Limited and reveals some very interesting statistics.