Contributions from: Mike Blamires - UK, Janet Tod - UK.
Three linked papers will outline possible developments in inclusive teaching and learning that could emerge by the year 2020. Though the papers will focus on the UK context, it is intended that the ideas presented will be of interest to an international audience.
The papers will be framed as critical and positive responses to the following statement:
"It is striking that so far the teaching and learning process has stayed remarkably stable in spite of huge structural changes of the last decade or so. We believe that, as the pressure of international competition increases and we face up to the 21st century, we must expect change in the nature of schooling."
(Excellence in Schools. A White Paper presented to
parliament in July 1997 by The Secretary of State
for Education and Employment.)
Paper 1: (Mike Blamires) will consider the concept of the versatile school and how principles of universal design might be applied in educational contexts. Such principles, it will be suggested, could and should radically transform the processes of teaching and learning.
Paper 2: (Christopher Robertson) will focus on pedagogic relationships between learners and teachers, and argue that so called 'educational roles' may also need to be reconceptualised, if future schools are to be truly responsive organisations. It will also consider the implications for training of a more relational view of pedagogy.
Paper 3: (Janet Tod) will reflect on approaches to meeting the exceptional needs of some learners. It will focus particularly on the current 'technology' of individual educational planning and consider the future value of such an approach to teaching and learning.
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