{"id":4360,"date":"2012-09-10T10:39:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T10:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/?p=240"},"modified":"2019-05-21T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T12:55:49","slug":"german-paralympics-team-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2012\/09\/10\/german-paralympics-team-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"German Paralympics Team Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the recent paralympics, Gillian Ziegner, MA Autism Studies (Distance Learning)\u00a0 gave a lecture to the German Behinderten-Sportverbrand (Association of Sport for the Disabled) and disabled atheletes from Germany <em>&#8220;Inclusive Education in England: present reality or utopian dream?&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em>This outlined the implementation of inclusive policies in schools in England followed by a 40\u00a0minute discussion in German centred on the policies in North Rhine-Westphalia where it is intended to close a large number of special schools and to implement inclusive school policies over the next few years.\u00a0Gillian currently teaches in an inclusive school in North Rhine-Westphalia and so was able to compare the two countries and see where the pitfalls lie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gillian was also lucky enough to attend the paralympic swimming events on the 1st September\u00a0as the guest\u00a0of Herr Keuther,\u00a0Events Secretary\u00a0of the German Behinderten-Sportverband Nordrhein-Westfalen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/files\/2012\/09\/IMG_40051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-245\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/files\/2012\/09\/IMG_40051-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/files\/2012\/09\/Abstract-Inclusion.pdf\">Abstract-Inclusion<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the recent paralympics, Gillian Ziegner, MA Autism Studies (Distance Learning)\u00a0 gave a lecture to the German Behinderten-Sportverbrand (Association of Sport for the Disabled) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2012\/09\/10\/german-paralympics-team-lecture\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,43796],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}