Learning Inclusion in a Digital Age: Belonging and Finding a Voice with the Disadvantaged

This open-access book explores how inclusive learning, well-being, and active citizenship can be promoted in the digital world, focusing on the roles of governments, education sectors, and professionals in working with vulnerable adults. It utilizes digital storytelling as a methodological pillar to generate innovative understanding and practices.

Format: Hardback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 23 February 2024
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This open-access book explores the promotion, teaching, learning, and support of inclusive education, well-being, and active citizenship in the digital age. It raises and seeks to answer three critical questions: How can governments and intergovernmental organizations foster learning inclusion and active citizenship? How can the education sector, along with public and private enterprises, support these goals? Additionally, how can professionals and communities collaborate effectively with vulnerable adults who face disadvantages, empowering them through participatory and inclusive approaches?

The examples presented in the book draw from the experiences of adult refugees and migrants, as well as individuals who may face discrimination or disadvantages due to various social, economic, political, cultural, religious, physical, mental, age, or gender-related factors.

One methodological cornerstone of this work is the development of skills in digital storytelling and the creation of digital stories for personal, community, and professional purposes. Conceptually and of interest to researchers and policymakers at local, national, and transnational levels, this book brings together a range of related concepts to generate innovative understanding and practical approaches that hold relevance in the context of the pandemic and its aftermath.

Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789819971954