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Global Concerns and Local Realities: The “Making Education Inclusive” Conference in Johannesburg (2014)
Journal Article
Walton, E. (2015). Global Concerns and Local Realities: The “Making Education Inclusive” Conference in Johannesburg. Intervention in School and Clinic, 50(3), 173-177. https://doi.org/10.1177/1053451214542039

Inclusive education is a global phenomenon expressed differently in various countries, and different contextual realities support or constrain the process of making education more inclusive. This column reports on an international conference on inclu... Read More about Global Concerns and Local Realities: The “Making Education Inclusive” Conference in Johannesburg.

‘You can train us until we are blue in our faces, we are still going to struggle’: Teacher professional learning in a full-service school (2014)
Journal Article
Walton, E., Nel, N. M., Muller, H., & Lebeloane, O. (2014). ‘You can train us until we are blue in our faces, we are still going to struggle’: Teacher professional learning in a full-service school. Education as Change, 18(2), 319-333. https://doi.org/10.1080/16823206.2014.926827

Teacher educators internationally are concerned with how best to prepare and equip teachers to be pedagogically responsive to an increasingly diverse learner population. This concern is echoed in South Africa as inclusive education is entrenched in t... Read More about ‘You can train us until we are blue in our faces, we are still going to struggle’: Teacher professional learning in a full-service school.

Using metaphors to gain insight into South African student teachers' initial and developing conceptions of ‘being a teacher’ (2014)
Journal Article
Rusznyak, L., & Walton, E. (2014). Using metaphors to gain insight into South African student teachers' initial and developing conceptions of ‘being a teacher’. Education as Change, 18(2), 335-355. https://doi.org/10.1080/16823206.2014.882265

Abstract: Metaphors are a useful way of accessing students' conceptions of teaching and tracking how their conceptions shift over time. This article analyses metaphors for ‘being a teacher’ written by a group of South African student teachers at the... Read More about Using metaphors to gain insight into South African student teachers' initial and developing conceptions of ‘being a teacher’.