Teachers for All

Keywords

Inclusion, teacher education, video, case.

Overview

A program which targets teacher education for inclusive schools, with a focus on literacy and learners with disabilities. It presents audiovisual situations from the classrooms in Uganda and Kenya, and gives information and reflection exercises.

Aims

• Develop DVD - programs as stabel teaching aids in Uganda and Kenya, and a web application to be used mainly at University of Oslo. Give the application a universal design.
• Use the material as a source for student activity, and link this use to a cluster of research question focused on teacher education. The audiovisual material is the basis for the work in the research group "Design of Learning Environments in Teacher Education for Inclusion".

Methods

Videosituations from classrooms in Uganda and Kenya are designed for reflections and discussions among teacher training students. The situations are linked to relevant questions and a rich scaffolding material.

Partners

InterMedia and Department of Special Needs Education (DSNE)

Period of Duration

2005-08

Outcomes

Two DVD´s with focus on Methodology and Inclusion. A web - based learning aid with universal design. Articles in journals.

Related projects

• My Rights - equal human rights of people with mental disabilities. (Production from souther part of Africa).
• CBR - A community approach to rehabilitation of children with different abilities. (Production form Nepal).
• Adapted Education. (Production from Palestine).

Funding

Flexible Learning program at UiO.
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)