Run Tan

Background

About Run Tan

I am Assistant Professor in inclusive and special needs education at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences in Groningen University. Prior to this, I have held academic positions at Konstanz University and Bielefeld University in Germany. I am a researcher of incluisve education, cross-cultural comparision, early childhood education with a PhD awarded by Bielefeld University, Germany. Guided by critical disability theory and cultural–historical framework, I conduct cross cultural comparative studies, with an emphasize on bringing in the voice of the Global South countries, to understand how inclusion for every child can take place and how to sustain and maximize it. While critically examining three key stakeholders (teachers', teaching assitants' and families') agency (attitude, self-efficacy, beliefs) and how their daily practice can facilitate more inclusion from the main four dimensions of: access, acceptance, participation and achievement, I emphasize on the importance of positioning children's voice in the center during the process. I am also interested in how intersectionality of disability, gender and ethnicity shape individuals' inclusion and exclusion experience and how gifted studens can be best supported for better acadmic and social learning in the general educational system.