Purpose: Presently hearing-impaired adolescents are not alien to the world and facing social segregation due to limited social skills. The use of ICT is one of the major assistance applicable for the ...social inclusion of students with hearing impairment (SWHI) by compensating the limited hearing. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study was sketched to highlight the role of various digital technological aids in the social inclusion of hearing-impaired students using a cross-section survey design. A sample of 85 students from the public and private schools of Lahore was selected. A structured questionnaire was developed to collect data from SWHI. Content and construct validity estimated by experts. Cronbach alpha reliability of the instruments was .88. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data Findings: The use of digital devices has added great value in integrating SWHI in general society. No significant difference has been found in the use of technology based on gender, a statistically significant difference was explored in the use of technology by SWHI based on their zone. Implications/Originality/Value: The provision of the latest technology and teachers' training to use digital devices for teaching hearing-impaired students to facilitate their social inclusion was major recommendation.
The Internet has become an essential platform for communication and a vital approach to accessing information in people's daily life. Exploring the antecedents and outcomes of Internet acceptance ...from the psychological and emotional perspectives remains an area that warrants further investigation. This article constructs and empirically tests a comprehensive research framework, namely the emotional-TAM (E-TAM). This model is tested with data collected from 615 Internet users in the United States. The findings indicate that Internet acceptance is related to social inclusion and the fulfilment of three types of psychological needs derived from Self-Determination Theory. The continuance intention of using the Internet significantly relates to the users' degree of well-being, perceived value, and four categories of emotions. A number of significant moderating effects were also found.
•Explored the psychological and emotional antecedents and outcomes of Internet acceptance.•Internet acceptance related to social inclusion.•Internet acceptance was also found to relate psychological needs derived from SDT.•Continued Internet usage related to well-being, perceived value.•Continued Internet usage was also found to relate to four categories of emotions.
This study introduces a mixed-method model for the realistic evaluation of programmes promoting the experience of social inclusion of people in disadvantaged positions. It combines qualitative and ...quantitative methods for exploring the context-mechanism-outcome- configurations of four cases consisting of development projects. Qualitative analyses depict the context-mechanism-outcome-configurations using participants’ interviews and small success stories as data. Quantitative analyses of a longitudinal survey including the Experiences of Social Inclusion Scale examine the context-mechanism-outcome-configurations in a larger group of participants and re-test the qualitative findings. Thus, they help to overcome the positive selection bias of the small success stories. The mixed-method approach is fruitful especially because the qualitative and the quantitative analyses amend each other’s shortcomings. In the promotion of social inclusion, it is important to help people to see themselves as active agents and allow them to connect to larger social domains.
Assessment drives learning and determines success in higher education. In a robust and defensible system, assessment should not exclude based on extraneous student characteristics, particularly as ...the student body becomes more diverse. This research sought to examine classroom assessment designs that might make assessment inclusive. A critical literature review was conducted identifying 13 research papers where outcomes of inclusive assessment were reported. Included studies focussed on students with disabilities, international and linguistically diverse students. Only one study examined the effects of inclusive assessment design on student learning. Efforts to make assessment more inclusive were as follows: offering students choice, programmatic approaches to assessment and co-design of assessment and policies that promote inclusion. Universal design for assessment has not been widely implemented within the sector. This is likely due to limited theorisation and operationalisation of inclusive assessment and assessment design processes that favour tradition and taken-for-granted assumptions about how assessment should be. Assessment designers should consider the ways in which assessment might exclude and to foster wider scholarship towards assessment for inclusion.
This research explains the development of a model for empowering coastal communities based on their professions using a socially inclusive library approach. The case study was conducted in Banten ...Lama, Kota Serang, Banten Province. The objective of this research is to find an appropriate model for empowering the community, tailored to the existing professions in coastal communities. The socially inclusive library approach is employed as a means to empower the community and improve their well-being. The research method used in this study is descriptive qualitative research, focusing on the functions and roles of libraries in increasing community engagement in terms of well-being. The findings of this research present a model for empowering coastal communities based on their respective professions. In the smallest context, the library is represented by a community reading park, which serves as an agent of change in the coastal community. The conclusion in this study is that the social inclusion-based library model is adapted to community professions adapted to the support of collaboration between regional libraries, village libraries and community reading library. In addition, this community empowerment model is described in three models according to the profession, namely the community empowerment model for the fisherman profession, the trade profession and the tour guide profession
Libraries can play a more role and can contribute in terms of community empowerment, closer, invite and empower the community. One way to get closer to the community is that the library can use the ...concept of inclusion to achieve its goals as a principle of lifelong learning. Inclusion-based libraries are libraries that facilitate the community in developing their potential by seeing cultural diversity, willingness to accept change, and offering opportunities to try, protect and fight for culture and human rights. This has been done by the Library of Science Resources in Marga Sakti Village, Musi Rawas Regency, with the concept of a Village Library Based on Social Inclusion, which has made the library an institution that can empower the community through productive activities such as making bitter melon chips, cultivating crickets, providing internet access for the community, Karang Taruna activities by establishing Youth Bands, PKK activities centered in libraries, storytelling activities, mobile libraries, establishing reading villages and others. Of the many activities above, this indicates that the library has become the central activity of the village community and as a concrete manifestation that the Marga Sakti Village Resource Library has implemented the concept of Social Inclusion.
This CEEMR special section examines encounters and interactions between migrants as newcomers and their hosts. Our exploration derives from harnessing, first, a sense of belonging and, second, social ...interactions as two interrelated processes of encounter. To the extent that the host develops a sense of belonging with the newcomers and cultivates social interaction with them as the others, the newcomers would become visible and encounters followed by meaningful interactions with them would be possible. To look at this from another perspective, the newcomers develop a sense of belonging with their hosts as they encounter them and engage in social interactions with them in their everyday. We note that there is ample research that takes a critical stance on integration and inclusion already but there is still space to explore encounters and interactions in greater detail and why they matter for newcomers and host societies to establish intimacies with each other.
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