Full Description
Promoting Equitable Access to Education for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment offers a suitable vocabulary and developmental route map to examine the changing influences on promoting equitable access to education for learners with vision impairment in different contexts and settings, throughout a given educational pathway.
Bringing together a wide range of perspectives, this book argues that inclusive educational systems and teaching approaches should focus upon promoting and sustaining a balanced curriculum. It provides an analysis of how a suitable curriculum balance can be promoted and sustained through the stages of a given educational pathway to ensure equitable access and progression for all learners with vision impairment. The authors draw on the United Kingdom as a country study to illustrate the complex ecosystem within which learners with vision impairment are educated.
Structured around a framework which provides a conceptually coherent and practical balance between universal and specialist approaches, this book is a relevant read for educators, academics, and researchers involved in vision impairment education as well as officials in government and non-government organisations engaged in developing education policy relating to inclusive education and disability.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Dedication
About the authors
Foreword: Dr Frances Gentle
Introduction
PART I
Mapping the educational landscape
1 An introduction to vision impairment education
2 Exploring curriculum access for learners with vision impairment
3 Developing the parameters of a conceptual framework and the role of the specialist practitioner
PART 2
Applying the conceptual framework to vision impairment education
4 Early childhood care and education in home and informal learning settings
5 Early childhood education in more formal learning settings
6 The primary years
7 The secondary years
8 Post-compulsory education
PART 3
Future policy and research directions
9 Future policy directions - Reaffirming 'What Matters'
10 What works in vision impairment education?
11 Concluding thoughts
References
Index
Appendix 1 - UK Country Study (Definitions)
Appendix 2 - UK Country Study (Population)
Appendix 3 - Case Study (Articulating 'What Matters' through a policy response)
