Inclusive education: a way to think differently about difference | Peter Walker | TEDxAdelaide
How and where we are educated shapes our perception of disability and difference. For the change society needs, we must challenge the model of segregated schooling. Peter's engaging talk explores how decisions in our adult life can be positively affected by an inclusive education experience, backing up research that shows positive educational and social results for students with and without disabilities. We truly learn better together.
Segregated education is rising in popularity in Australia and some other parts of the world. Peter Walker’s view is that this isn’t working. He comes to the issue as former principal of a special school in New South Wales. Peter is now a lecturer in special education at Flinders University and is completing his doctorate on the subject. He is also the president of the South Australian chapter of the Australian Association of Special Education.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
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I've completed the Closed Captioning on this video now, so I hope this opens the message up to a lot more of you.
@flynn3331
Ай бұрын
can you send me this transcript in American English I'm struggling to understand the Australian English accent. also when was this filmed and where was this filmed. thankyou.
Thankyou Peter! Disability isn't something that should be separated in education. Inclusive modes of operation for education will eventually lead to a more inclusive society in general :-)
What a sentence... We need to think Differently without a difference ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you, as a mum of a young child with autism this is so informative.
Very interesting. Food for thought.
Great talk about inclusive education. I appreciate your effort.
Great job Peter! Really interesting and thought provoking. We never realize or think consciously about, how much our surroundings/experiences growing up, influence our current thinking and behaviour towards others. Maybe our so academically driven education system needs to have an adjustment to include the whole child, like for instance in Pestalozzi's Philosophy.
@dawnkinggibsones4289
8 ай бұрын
Absolutely! Pestalozzi believed in a balance of head, hands, and heart.
Great talk Peter!
Amazing talk ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I loved it ❤️❤️❤️❤️
A vid that Senator Pauline Hanson needs to watch,. Well done Peter Walker!
Bad echo in this video
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Spoiler Alert: Every individual student is different. No single child learns the same. Difference is quite factually a reality of life. Universal Design for Learning acknowledges this. It’s just so strange people are discussing how education should or could or would be inclusive. If you’re ableist - that defines inclusion. What about sexism? Should women be included in education? Racism? Should education should be inclusion to only non minorities? Historically, education has excluded education to socially marginalized groups/identities. However, today, the debate of disability still lives on. Segregation and discrimination is still normalized for disabled. Today, being disabled is still rationalized as grounds for discrimination, oppression, segregation, and inequalities. It’s amazing. Intersectionality - it acknowledges one can both benefit from and be oppressed by the system. We can fight one form of oppression while perpetrating others. Identities don’t exist in a vacuum.
What this video is unfairly assuming is that a student in a special setting is not getting the same experience as mainstream students! Special schools still provide opportunities for interschool sports, theatre productions, fates and social events. "It was great" was a quote from the first day at a school for autism, yes? So, while Peter has good intentions, I argue he misses the most important thing about current problems with inclusion (it's not leadership), it's teacher training. Mainstream teachers already have enough to do without also needing to know behaviour strategies when a teenager gets up, runs around the room, and takes off all their clothes, or the student who pulls down anything hanging on a wall anywhere in the school or classroom. Yes, there is a need to improve inclusion in mainstream schools, but it needs to be through the teachers, and not through undermining the great work that educators do in specialist settings today.
@sdwhitm
Жыл бұрын
As a teacher, I can relate to the already full plate of responsibilities that you reference. I think though, that there is a threshold. Some of the examples you give may require, and best be served in, a special school. But there are also may be many students attending special schools that could have been successful in the general classroom with some accommodations and minimal effort and planning on the part of the teacher. With better training, as you state is needed, I think that a higher rate of inclusion could be successful and beneficial to the students.
I know a kindergarten teacher who had in her class a child with equizophrenia and bipolar disorder. She went through a big deal of stress causing her to loose her first pregnancy. I am actually working in a early childhood center and we have a child with autism. This child pushes the babies and throw heavy toys to the air. I am so afraid that he can hurt the rest of the kids.
I couldn't understand his accent at all..........huhhhhhh I feel sad