HeyJaredDiveIn: Diving into Special Education's Most Complex and Pressing Debates
Join Dr. Federico Waitoller for DiveIn, the podcast that explores the most complex and pressing debates in Special Education.
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The Inclusive Education Series: On instructional Design with James Basham (opens the original)
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Good news: we found that one listener my show stats are telling me we have! His name is James “Jamie” Basham. Even better, he happens to be a Professor of Special Education at the University of Kansas and a leading scholar on Universal Design for Learning, instructional design, learner variability, and inclusive learning environments. In this episode, we return to our Inclusive Education Series and move from the big conceptual debates to a practical question: If we want inclusive classrooms, how
MOVERS NEEDED! 📦 What Is Happening to the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services? (opens the original)
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Apparently, special education is moving. Literally. This week, DiveIn takes a short break from our Inclusive Education Series for an important update from Washington, D.C. Kuna Tavalin from the Council for Exceptional Children returns to the podcast to help us make sense of the changes involving OSERS, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). I jokingly asked Kuna whether OSERS employees were actually walking around Washington carrying boxes from o
The Inclusive Education Series: A Conversation with Valentina Migliarini (opens the original)
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What do inclusive education, intersectionality, the Global South, Italian anti-fascism, and almost dying on a Greek island have in common? Apparently, one episode of DiveIn . 🎙️ In the fourth episode of our Inclusive Education Series, I sit down with my friend and colleague Valentina Migliarini, Associate Professor in Education Studies at the University of Birmingham, whose work examines inclusive education at the intersections of disability, race, migration, language, and social justice. Valent
The Inclusive Education Series: A conversation with Mel Ainscow (opens the original)
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What does inclusive education really mean—and what have we learned since the Salamanca Statement placed it firmly on the international agenda more than three decades ago? In the third episode of DiveIn’s Inclusive Education Series, Federico speaks with Mel Ainscow , Professor of Education at the University of Glasgow, Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester, and one of the world’s leading scholars on inclusion and equity in education. Mel brings a uniquely international and historical
The Inclusive Education Series: A conversation with Doug Fuchs (opens the original)
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Can students with disabilities be fully included in general education classrooms? Or are there times when separate, specialized instruction is not only appropriate but necessary? In the second episode of our Inclusive Education Series, I sit down with Doug Fuchs , one of the most influential special education researchers of the last four decades. Doug offers a perspective that challenges many of the assumptions behind today's inclusion movement. We discuss what inclusive education actually means
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