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Cooperation with the Australian Monash University has yielded first results
Petr Svojanovský and Jana Obrovská, as part of the Czech Republic's Grant Agency project Addressing the Individual Educational Needs of All Pupils: Ethnography of Secondary School Classrooms, a year ago established professional cooperation with Professor Umesh Sharma, one of the world's leading experts on inclusive education. Under his guidance, they completed a research internship at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia this spring.
During their stay they were involved in teaching through invited lectures and workshops for Australian colleagues and students. The research collaboration also focused on the preparation of peer-reviewed studies, one of which was recently published in the prestigious international journal Teaching and Teacher Education.
The study, entitled Teachers' inclusive core practices and all students' perspectives, is based on longitudinal ethnographic research that included hundreds of hours of classroom observations and contextualizing interviews with female, male, and female elementary school teachers. In it, the authors present a new framework of so-called core inclusive strategies that promote effective engagement of all students in the heterogeneous classroom. The authors pay particular attention to the perspectives of male and female students, who highlight the real challenges in the everyday application of inclusive strategies in the classroom. Professor Sharma explains the importance and benefits of the study here.
The academics are currently deepening their collaboration by developing new research projects to compare teachers' inclusive practices and students' perceptions of them in the Czech and Australian contexts.
Petr Svojanovský and Jana Obrovská are part of the Pupil Diversity and Differentiation in Teaching research group based in the Department of Education with a long-standing interest in inclusive education research and how to respond effectively to pupil diversity. The goal is to meet the educational needs of all students so that they have equal opportunities to succeed in the school environment.
