Inclusive teaching of palaeontology for people with and without disabilities through didactic workshops
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Ríos-Reyes, C. A., Portilla-Mendoza, K. A., Carrillo-Hernández, Y. M., Díaz-Gutiérrez, S. L., Gutiérrez-Quintero, N. S., Castellanos-Alarcón, O. M., Alba-Pastor, C., & López-Alba, M. (2025). Inclusive teaching of palaeontology for people with and without disabilities through didactic workshops. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 29(13), 2358-2378. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2024.2349717
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This work describes the didactic preparation and the result of carrying out palaeontological workshops designed for all students, based on strategies with a didactic approach proposed by the Universal Design for Learning in the methodologies used by teachers that allow students with and without disabilities to access knowledge regardless of their deficiency, removing context barriers and maximising learning opportunities. In this work, didactic workshops based not only on elements related to geosciences but also on interactivity with palaeontologists themselves are proposed, with which an exchange of ideas and information is established.
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The authors are very grateful to the students of the Geological Heritage Research Seedbed of the Research Group in Basic and Applied Geology of the Geology School of the Universidad Industrial de Santander and the EducaDUA team for supporting the development of different geoeducation activities. We also thank Universidad Industrial de Santander for providing appropriate settings such as U18, Earth Science Week and the Neighbors and Friends Program where numerous participants attended for the execution of these activities. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions on this manuscript.
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