International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas in Education, 2020
At present Inclusive Education (IE) is the most important issue in the education sector of the wo... more At present Inclusive Education (IE) is the most important issue in the education sector of the world. As a devel-oping country Bangladesh also tried best to implement IE in all level of education. After the liberation of 1971, Government of Bangladesh enacted the constitution. Education is mentioned as the basic rights of all children in the constitution. The CRC, Salamanca Statement, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) have stimulated argument and policy development for around issues relating to inclusive education in the whole world. The Government of Bangladesh also has ratified many acts and regulations for implementation of IE. ‘The Primary Education Development Program-2(PEDP-2)’ and ‘PEDP-3’ are policy initiatives of the government to ensure IE. Despite those well formulated policies and different initiatives, there are still large gaps in the development that we need. In this context this research will find out what is gap between t...
In primary, we got to choose things, but everything is decided for us here': pupil experience of consultation in the school and classroom
This paper discusses pupil experience of consultation in the school and classroom
Weaponising antisemitism: review of Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Antony Lerman and David Miller, 2019 Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief (London: Pluto Press)
Are changing practices of Holocaust teaching good for citizenship education
This chapter discusses Primo Levi, a Jewish-Italian chemist and writer. He is best known for '... more This chapter discusses Primo Levi, a Jewish-Italian chemist and writer. He is best known for 'If This Is a Man', his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Nearly a decade into the new millennium, the teaching of political literacy as a strand of educat... more Nearly a decade into the new millennium, the teaching of political literacy as a strand of education for citizenship has taken on a new urgency throughout much of the world. In most developed countries there is now a feeling that young people need to develop a healthy respect for democratic procedures and consequent methods of participating to shape modern society and an understanding that real political literacy means moving beyond the strictures of traditional civics courses. The introduction into places as far apart as Scotland and Hong Kong of aspects of political education in primary schools (Cheung & Leung 1998; Maitles 2005) has itself reflected a worry (almost a moral panic) in government circles about youth alienation, albeit with some debate as to whether schools should be the places where this is developed. This paper examines the attitudes of young people towards politics, explains some peculiarities of education in Scotland and reports on research into the knowledge, interest, cynicism/trust and values/attitudes of approximately 1600 pupils-50% of whom study Modern Studies whilst the others study history or geography. The paper explores whether those pupils studying Modern Studies have a stronger basis in some elements of political literacy than those who do not study it. The results suggest that Modern Studies students have more knowledge, greater interest and are less cynical but, that in terms of values, there is no discernible difference.
Introduction: education for citizenship Education for citizenship is intrinsically bound up with ... more Introduction: education for citizenship Education for citizenship is intrinsically bound up with democracy. In particular, the feeling that young people are citizens now (as opposed to in the future) and that democracy has to be fostered from a young age are central issues in the formal proposals put to governments in Britain by both the Advisory Group (1998) in England and the Review Group (2002) in Scotland. There is a near moral panic in Britain (indeed in most representative democracies around the world) that young people are apathetic, alienated and disinterested in politics. In Britain, there is the example of the recent European Union election in 1999 in which, as a whole, turnout was barely above 20%, in some areas just in double
... ISBN: 978-1-903765-23-4 (pp. 75, £14.50, pb)., pb.) Review by MARGARET MCCULLOCH ... 109 Glob... more ... ISBN: 978-1-903765-23-4 (pp. 75, £14.50, pb)., pb.) Review by MARGARET MCCULLOCH ... 109 Globalisation and Higher Education in the Arab Gulf States Gari Donn & Yahya Al Manthri, Y. (2010) Oxford: Symposium Books. ISBN 978-1-873927-31-1 (pp. 176, US$48.00, pb). ...
Book Review: Teaching Large Classes: Usable Practices from Around the World
Improving Schools, Jul 1, 2004
The authors have divided the book into four parts, using as its basis the key themes arising from... more The authors have divided the book into four parts, using as its basis the key themes arising from the competition entries. Before reading the comments from the youngsters, each chapter has an informative commentary about the theme and a useful reading list. Material from an earlier competition run by The Observer in 1967 provides a useful comparison, although this used only the views of secondary school pupils. Here, not only are the views of children from infant to secondary school, special education and mainstream shared, but there are a number of poignant quotations from youngsters whom the education system has clearly forgotten or failed.
The relationship between learning about the Holocaust and the development of positive values may ... more The relationship between learning about the Holocaust and the development of positive values may seem common sense but in reality there is a complex level of development and understanding. This research (which was sponsored by the Scottish Government) was designed to ascertain whether learning about the Holocaust impacts on young people's general citizenship values and attitudes; does learning about the Holocaust allow them to extrapolate from the events of the Holocaust to present day issues, such as racism and discrimination. The research followed a cohort of approximately 100 pupils (aged 11-12) who had studied the Holocaust and compared their values one year later both in comparison to their earlier attitudes and compared to their peers who had not studied the Holocaust. This paper reports the findings. As we might expect, the results were not always as predicted, particularly when it came to the pupils understanding of anti-Semitism or genocide; in general though, our core group had maintained more positive values than they had before their lessons on the Holocaust and were more positive than their peers.
What type of citizenship education; What type of citizen?
UN chronicle, Feb 26, 2014
Education for citizenship raises key questionswhat is education for? What is the role of the sch... more Education for citizenship raises key questionswhat is education for? What is the role of the school in developing positive attitudes amongst young people? How can controversial issues be raised in the classroom? How do we develop critical citizens?
Political education in schools
International Journal of Inclusive Education, Apr 1, 1999
Surviving the Holocaust: The anger and guilt of Primo Levi
Journal of Genocide Research, Jun 1, 2002
... We have a duty to ensure that the kind of horrors Primo Levi so eloquently warns us about are... more ... We have a duty to ensure that the kind of horrors Primo Levi so eloquently warns us about are never allowed to ... Never again should people have to carry this guilt ... If This Is a Man (1947), The Truce (1963), The Periodic Table (1975), Moments of Reprieve (1981), If Not Now, When ...
Attitudes to Jewish Immigration in the West of Scotland to 1905
Scottish economic and social history, May 1, 1995
<i>‘We saw inhumanity close up’</i>. What is gained by school students from Scotland visiting Auschwitz?
Journal of Curriculum Studies, Apr 1, 2011
As the education for citizenship agenda continues to impact on schools in the UK and with the Hol... more As the education for citizenship agenda continues to impact on schools in the UK and with the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) in conjunction with the Scottish Government introducing its Lessons From Auschwitz (LFA) project for students and teachers in Scotland, this article focuses on the Scottish context and investigates the school processes by which students are chosen to participate in
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