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...... Curriculum Ideas: Tracey Chappell, the principal of Bundaberg Special School in Queensland, Australia, has a passion directed toward curriculum for students with disabilities and toward strategies for inclusiveness for those students. Special educators need to ensure that students with disabilities are offered the opportunity to learn and be challenged in ways that are meaningful to them in the global world of the 21st Century, Chappell writes (2008). In that regard, Chappell insists that learning for students with disabilities should be contextualized within systemic curriculum frameworks. In other words, instead of serving students with disabilities as though they are users of resourcesrequiring support and assistance, they should be approached as learners in an inclusive environment who will become active citizens with capacity and capabilities (Chappell, 2008)
In New Zealand, as in other countries, the special education literature tends to have significant absences and silences around curriculum (Millar, et al, 2007). Perhaps this silence is because the two apparently separate worlds of curriculum and special education have not been fully integrated; however, Millar goes on, failure to explore more fully the diverse curriculum needs of children with disabilities can only lead to their continued disadvantage in an educational world that is

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