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Making Inherent Requirements Coherent: Anticipating a Means to Inclusive Education
Inherent requirements (Australia), competence standards (UK), or essential functions (US) are often tied to notions of higher education academic integrity and linked to professional standards in practice-based professions like teaching. They are used to define and categorise core competencies students must demonstrate to prove proficiency, for example, with verbal capacity, behavioural regulation, physical dexterity or cognitive skill. The purpose of this discussion is to think with theory not commonly deployed in research related to inclusive higher education. Theoretical resources from critical disability studies and critical educational psychology are advanced to challenge the often fixed, universal, and deficit-oriented constraints used in inherent requirement applications. Responses from a 20-item survey involving academic staff in teacher training courses at an Australian university are considered through these orientations. The discussion is not intended to produce standard survey results so much as it offers ways of anticipating pragmatic means to inclusive education.
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Carrier Gases and Their Effects on Aerosol Drug Delivery
Carrier gases provide the medium for delivery of inhaled aerosol therapies. The physical properties of these gases substantially affect both fluid and aerosol mechanics in the lung. Gas density affects both the pressure/flow relationship in the airways and the extent of turbulence within the flow. These physical properties also affect the operation of some components of respiratory and aerosol drug delivery equipment. The lower resistance associated with breathing low density gases has prompted many studies of therapeutic applications. This includes the respiration of helium-oxygen gas mixtures to improve oxygenation and carbon dioxide removal, and the use of these gases to improve the delivery of inhaled medications. Results of these studies have been mixed but meta-analyses indicate a benefit of helium-oxygen respiration for croup and bronchiolitis and for bronchodilator delivery in obstructive disease. Some of the variability demonstrated in these studies is likely associated with specific technical aspects of how the gases are delivered. The utility of alternate carrier gases for aerosol delivery would be facilitated by simultaneous assessment of both aerosol deposition and clinical effect during studies. Previous successful applications may offer a basis for improved delivery system designs that fully realize the effects that might be available with these gases.
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Disability studies : educating for inclusion
Education systems worldwide will only successfully serve the needs of people with disability when we inclusively examine and address disabling issues that currently exist at school level education as well as further and higher education and beyond. The chapters contributing to this edited volume are presented to assist readers with a critical examination of contemporary practice and offer a concerted response to improving inclusive education. The chapters address a range of important topics related to the field of critical disability studies in education and include sections dedicated to Schools, Higher Education, Family and Community and Theorising. The contributors entered into discussions during the 2014 AERA Special Interest Group annual meeting hosted by Victoria University in Australia. The perspectives offered here include academic, practitioner, student and parent with contributions from Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, the UK and the US, providing transnational interest. This book will appeal to readers who are interested in innovative theoretical approaches, practical applications and personal narratives. The book is accessible for scholars and students in disciplines including education, sociology, psychology, social work, youth studies, as well as public and allied health. The Introduction by Professor Roger Slee (The Victoria Institute, Victoria University, Australia) and Afterword by Professor David Connor (City University of New York) provide insightful and important commentary. Cover photograph by Paul Dunn and design by Hendrik Jacobs.
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School Psychologists and Ethical Challenges
This research explored how psychologists working in the Victorian secondary state school system construct meaning around ethical practice. The specific aims of the research were to examine psychologists understanding of ethics in practice within schools and to explore challenges they faced regarding professional ethics when working in the education system. A qualitative design was adopted to explore the topic. Five psychologists working in the Victorian state education system were interviewed, and the data were analysed using thematic analysis. Two themes presented from the transcripts: legalities and ethics and varied peer support. The psychologists reported having to confront often and repeated ethical challenges, but despite this, positioned themselves as ethical practitioners. Ethical practice was portrayed as a complex construct that is always socially and politically embedded. Subsequently, discussion on the topic should extend beyond the sole practitioner. The research provides future direction for policy development and workplace procedures, including access to professional supervision.
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Who's in? Who's Out?
Who's In? Who's Out? portrays the successes and the challenges inclusive education researchers take on in striving to dismantle barriers involving access, presence, participation and success in education.
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Psychology in Education
n this book, a group of respected international scholars examine controversies presently facing the enduring relationship between psychology and education. The book will appeal to readers who are interested in the innovative development and application of psychological theories and practices in/to education. The book will be of interest to transnational audiences and is accessible to scholars and students in disciplines including psychology, education, sociology, social work, youth studies, public and allied health.
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Disability Studies
The chapters contributing to this edited volume are presented to assist readers with a critical examination of contemporary practice and offer a concerted response to improving inclusive education. The chapters address a range of important topics related to the field of critical disability studies in education and include sections dedicated to Schools, Higher Education, Family and Community and Theorising.
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Critical educational psychology
[This book is] a approach to educational psychology that uses critical perspectives to challenge current ways of thinking and improve practice. [...] This text uses a broad range of theoretical resources from outside mainstream psychology to examine issues at the forefront of educational psychology. The chapters discuss the role of education; the relationship between teaching and learning; the impact of gender, faith and ethics in educational settings; the construction of rich learning environments; and notions of normalcy, difference and disability. Contributors employ phenomenology; post-structuralism; psychoanalysis, discursive psychology, social constructionism, narrative psychology and disability studies theory, among other theoretical resources. (DIPF/Orig.).
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