Equality News

nr 1/2012

a cover of the "Equality News" issue 1

„Equality News" (Polish original "Wiadomości o Równości") is a series of four publications prepared by four eminent European academic centres: the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Pierre and Marie Curie University of Paris, Charles University of Prague and Aristotle University from Thessaloniki. They all collaborate as the DARe-Learning partnership, aiming to increase the participation of disabled persons in knowledge society through their university education.

The first issue of "Equality News" focuses on access to culture. Inside the reader will find:

Polish and foreign museums open for disabled visitors
Historical monuments of Kraków – can they be made accessible in architectonic terms?
Audiodescription, or how to replace images with words
What were the origins of the "To Touch Culture" guidebook?

Published under the auspices of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

nr 1 (2)/2013

a cover of the "Equality News" issue 2

The second issue of "Equality News" focuses on access to Internet. Published under the auspices of the Minister of Administration and Digitization. Inside the reader will find:

E-learning Is an Opportunity for All
Some Reflections on Internet Accessibility for Disabled Users
Preparation of Teaching Materials Adapted to the Needs of Persons with Disabilities
E-Textbooks Make Educational Opportunities More Equal
French-Polish E-learning Programme for Managerial Staff as Global–Scale Innovation.

nr 2 (3)/2013

The third issue of Equality News focuses mainly on the quality of education in the context of disability as it is often claimed that educational support for persons with disabilities lowers that quality. Here we showcase some specific examples suggesting to the contrary, i.e. that reasonable support for disabled students in the teaching process constitutes a part of a system aimed at high-quality university education, an excellence for which several actors are responsible including lecturers, disability support service and students.

Inside the reader will find:

Equality in the educational process
What is the DARe-Learning training course?
The Equality Awareness Day at the Jagiellonian University
Constellation Station
An innovative project by the JU Institute of Romance Studies and the JU DSS

Published under the auspices of the Minister of Science and Higher Education.

nr 3 (4)/2013

W czwartym numerze "Wiadomości o Równości" znajdują się artykuły obrazujące współpracę pomiędzy nauczycielami akademickimi a Działem ds. Osób Niepełnosprawnych UJ w przygotowaniu adaptacji procesu kształcenia. Oprócz tego można przeczytać bardzo ciekawy wykład prof. Ireny Lipowicz, Rzecznika Praw Obywatelskich wygłoszony na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim podczas debaty "O równości bez skrajności". Wydawnictwo jest objęte patronatem Rzecznika Praw Obywatelskich.

In the fourth issue of "Equality News", the last in the series, we focus particularly on showcasing cooperation between academic teachers and the Disability Support Service in preparing adaptations of the educational process.

Inside the reader will find:

Academic debate "About equality without going to extremes"
Is social change possible in Poland?
DARe-Learning: distance learning about equality
My "other" language course: English for hard of hearing and deaf students at the Jagiellonian University
(Non-) or disabled education? Teaching students with disabilities: an academic teacher's perspective
Academic lesson in equality
Integration through school and work, a fact or a myth?

Published under the auspices of the Polish Ombudsman.

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