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The right to education in prison offers a chance for human growth in a complex and dehumanizing environment. However, the peculiarities of prison systems, together with past experiences of school failure, can constitute significant obstacles to knowledge access. To enhance accessibility, participation, and achievement, even within prisons, it is necessary to review teaching practices. This paper aids in the reconsideration of the teaching of mathematics for incarcerated adults or young adults. Drawing on Paulo Freire’s theories, we analyze the dialogues with and among prisoner students about mathematics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The meaningful increase in Special Educational Needs in school contexts has provided to underlining the importance of accessibility in teachinglearning processes. Especially, the typical difficulties of ADHD can constitute important barriers to educational accessibility and become a challenging event that introduces training needs for teachers. The paper describes the first results of a collaborative action-research project carried out with a group of teachers and interpreted from a from a transformative perspective. The collected data, in addition to highlighting the relationship between meanings and teaching action, reveal the value of reflective practices to promote teachers’ awareness of their role as mediators of educational accessibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the fact that the concept of inclusion is increasingly present in Spanish libraries, recent research has shown that libraries are normally still far from being inclusive. After reviewing the main definitions of the concept of inclusive library in the Ibero-American context, the library community is invited to broaden the scope and dimension of the term following the work done in the business sector and in libraries from English-speaking countries. This paper reviews some of the initiatives to achieve inclusion carried out in Spanish libraries and the differentiating aspects that make a library inclusive or not. The paper also offers some guidelines that may bring us closer to the creation of truly inclusive libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]