The recent socio-political, economic, and cultural conditions, alongside the unprecedented scientific developments and upheavals (e.g., the expansion of knowledge, the positive and negative achievements of new technologies, the globalization of the economy, the increase in population, fierce competition, the strengthening of the individual over the collective, the expansion of living standards, the development of biotechnology, genetics, and neuroscience, the questioning of universal values, etc.) have urgently led to the development of a new understanding, a new term, Universal Design, to facilitate the individual and social life of citizens.
In the field of education, Universal Design is manifested and implemented in the school for all (integrated school). The new trend of inclusive education refers to the effort to recognize the individual differences of each student and to utilize them during the educational-teaching process within the framework of the integrated classroom. Thus, a trend is emerging and being imposed for greater interaction and osmosis between special and general education, with the aim of their creative unification.
We believe that the time has come for Special Education to offer and exchange positions, values, and achievements with General Education. With the integration of children with special educational needs into general education schools, general education as a whole can be enriched through common research programs, as required by the new trend, with new approaches to teaching (e.g., Differentiated Instruction), with new sensitized scientists at both theoretical and practical levels, and with new organizational-administrative as well as modern scientific infrastructures.
At the same time, the interdisciplinary nature of Special Education helps in the dissemination of research data from one scientific field to another, with the ultimate goal of developing the strategies and techniques that are necessary for acquiring the knowledge, skills, and shaping the attitudes required by modern society.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- Grigori
- Type
- General Special Education Topics
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- 2nd Panhellenic Conference of Special Education
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 348
- Release Date
- 12/2011
- Publication Date
- 2011
- Dimensions
- 17x24 cm
- Award
- -
- Intended for
- Special Education Teachers
- Educational Level
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9789603336877
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