Postgraduate - UnitEDF5632 - Understanding inclusion in learning communities

This unit considers key issues in relation to the concept of inclusion and its relationship with learning across different contexts. A central emphasis of the unit is on the ways in which education can be transformed to include all learners regardless of their age, sexuality, gender, class, ethnicity and disability. The unit addresses three major areas related to inclusion. First, the unit demonstrates how various social, global and economic forces underpin and influence inclusive education practices at global, national and local levels. Second, the unit explores how barriers to participation are created overtly and covertly at community, school and class levels for selected members of the society (particularly for those with a disability). Third, the unit offers information about various ways in which barriers to participation could be addressed to promote inclusion of excluded members (particularly those with a disability) across different contexts.