Associate ProfessorIlektra Spandagou

Project Opportunities

Title: Inclusive Education

Summary of opportunity:

Associate Professor Ilektra Spandagou worked as a special teacher and completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom in the area of inclusive education. She worked as a researcher at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and as a lecturer at the University of Athens and the University of Thessaly, Greece before moving to the University of Sydney. Her research interests include disability, classroom diversity, and curriculum differentiation.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

Research on teaching and learning

• Special and inclusive education

Social structures, inequalities and social justice

• Social change

Social work and social policy

• Disability and mental health

Keywords: inclusive education, social policy and social inclusion, disability studies, attitudes towards disability and inclusive education

----------Current Research Projects----------

• Teacher attitudes to inclusion: qualitative and quantitative exploration of how inclusion and disability is constructed by pre- and in-service teachers. The study has a comparative dimension
• Inclusive education, disability and media: representations of disability and inclusive education in newspapers
• Inclusive education in a time of crisis: examination of public debates on inclusive education.