Policy And Power In Inclusive Education

Author : Melanie Nind,Jonathan Rix,Kieron Sheehy,Katy Simmons
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000948257

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Policy and Power in Inclusive Education by Melanie Nind,Jonathan Rix,Kieron Sheehy,Katy Simmons Pdf

The movement towards inclusive education is undoubtedly an international phenomenon, and it has resulted in the development of policy initiatives impacting on schools in all nations. This informative, wide-ranging text brings together key illustrative material from an international field. It adopts a critical perspective on policy issues, but goes beyond this by making explicit the assumptions that drive policy development. Readers will be encouraged to develop their own framework, allowing them to conduct policy analysis and evaluation within their own educational context. Students and researchers interested in how principles of inclusive education are being translated into educational practices around the world will find this book an enlightening read.

Author : Jonathan Rix
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 041535210X

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Policy and Power in Inclusive Education by Jonathan Rix Pdf

The movement towards inclusive education is undoubtedly an international phenomenon, and it has resulted in the development of policy initiatives impacting on schools in all nations. This informative, wide-ranging text brings together key illustrative material from an international field. It adopts a critical perspective on policy issues, but goes beyond this by making explicit the assumptions that drive policy development. Readers will be encouraged to develop their own framework, allowing them to conduct policy analysis and evaluation within their own educational context. Students and researchers interested in how principles of inclusive education are being translated into educational practices around the world will find this book an enlightening read.

Author : F. Armstrong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780306481642

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Spaced Out: Policy, Difference and the Challenge of Inclusive Education by F. Armstrong Pdf

This work contributes to teachers’ and academic researchers’ understanding of the varied and complex ways inclusion and exclusion can be understood. It provides a lucid, coherent analysis into the nature of categorization, labeling and discursive practices within official discourse and procedures as well as the positional relationships between space, place and identities in relation to the experience of marginalized people including disabled pupils and young people.

Author : Mara Sapon-Shevin
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807032817

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Widening the Circle by Mara Sapon-Shevin Pdf

Widening the Circle is a passionate, even radical argument for creating school and classroom environments where all kids, including children labeled as “disabled” and “special needs,” are welcome on equal terms. In opposition to traditional models of special education, where teachers decide when a child is deemed “ready to compete” in “mainstream” classes, Mara Sapon-Shevin articulates a vision of full inclusion as a practical and moral goal. Inclusion, she argues, begins not with the assumption that students have to earn their way into the classroom with their behavior or skills, it begins with the right of every child to be in the mainstream of education, perhaps with modifications, adaptations, and support. Full inclusion requires teachers to think about all aspects of their classrooms—pedagogy, curriculum, and classroom climate. Crucially, Sapon-Shevin takes on arguments against full inclusion in a section of straight-talking answers to common questions. She agrees with critics that the rhetoric of inclusion has been used to justify eliminating services and “dumping” students with significant educational needs unceremoniously back into the mainstream with little or no support. If full inclusion is properly implemented, however, she argues, it not only clearly benefits those traditionally excluded but enhances the educations and lives of those considered mainstream in myriad ways. Through powerful storytelling and argument, Sapon-Shevin lays out the moral and educational case for not separating kids on the basis of difference.

Author : Anastasia Liasidou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441131157

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Inclusive Education, Politics and Policymaking by Anastasia Liasidou Pdf

This book is a critical overview on the history of inclusive education policy and practice developments, with suggestions for possible ways forward.

Author : Simona D’Alessio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460913426

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Inclusive Education in Italy by Simona D’Alessio Pdf

This book provides an innovative and thought-provoking analysis of the policy of integrazione scolastica from an inclusive perspective. Drawing on historical and empirical research methods the book arises out of an ethnographic study, which investigates the extent to which the policy of integrazione scolastica can be considered an inclusive policy. The author poses two fundamental questions: why are there episodes of micro-exclusion and discrimination against disabled pupils still taking place in regular schools after more than 30 years have passed since the enactment of such a progressive policy? Can the policy of integration lead to the development of inclusion in Italy? The research findings presented in the book indicate that exclusion and discrimination towards disabled pupils in education do not result from a lack of implementation of the policy at a school level, rather from the perpetuation of dominant discourses, which construct disability as an individual deficit. The book does not deny the progress made in the country following the application of this anti-discriminatory policy; rather it challenges the hegemonic abilist culture and the traditional perspectives of disability and schooling that undermine the development of inclusive education. After having investigated the theoretical premises of the policy of integration, the author argues that this progressive policy is still rooted in a special needs education paradigm and that what was once a liberating policy has been transformed into a hegemonic tool which still manages, controls and normalizes disability leaving school settings and teaching and learning routines unchanged. She finally argues for a human rights approach for the development of an inclusive school for the 21st century. The book is an essential reading for academics, policy makers, researchers and students involved in education as it links ideological pressures to practical analyses.

Author : Anastasia Liasidou
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441157393

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Author : Felicity Armstrong,Derrick Armstrong,Len Barton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136624384

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Inclusive Education by Felicity Armstrong,Derrick Armstrong,Len Barton Pdf

First published in 2000. This book looks at 'inclusive' education in the context of policy and practice in a number of different countries, particularly in relation to children and young people of school age. At the heart of the idea of inclusive education lie serious issues concerning 'human rights', 'equal opportunities' and 'social justice'. The papers in this book will, hopefully, contribute to stimulating further debate and dialogue over both the conceptualisation and understanding of a cross-cultural approach to inclusion and exclusion.

Author : Nareadi Phasha,Dikeledi Mahlo,George J. Sefa Dei
Publisher : Springer
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463008037

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Inclusive Education in African Contexts by Nareadi Phasha,Dikeledi Mahlo,George J. Sefa Dei Pdf

How do we articulate the possibilities, limitations and challenges of inclusive schooling and education in African contexts? This book insists that inclusive education cannot be taken for granted. Inclusion is neither a natural nor a given educational practice. It must be struggled for. Bringing a critical perspective to inclusive schooling and education is imperative. This book adds to current educational debates with an African lens. It engages inclusive education from multiple lenses of curriculum content, classroom pedagogy and instruction, representation, culture, environment and the socio-organization life of schools, the pursuit of equity and social justice and the search for educational relevance. It is opined that Africa cannot be left behind in rethinking educational inclusion in ways that evoke critical questions of power, equity and social difference. The question of leaner’s identity in terms of class, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, language, ethnicity and race are equally consequential for African schooling and education. When inclusion is understood as wholeness of education, then how schooling and education engage the complete learner – her/his body, mind, soul and spirit, as well as the use of local community and Indigenous knowledges in teaching and learning become relevant. Inclusion stands the risk of liberal educational agendas that simply tinker or toy with schooling and education and hardly embrace the challenge of educational change. What we need is a fundamental structural change that ensures schooling and education embraces difference while grappling with the teaching of Indigeneity, decolonization and resistance.

Author : Ontario. Ministry of Education and Training
Publisher : Ministry of Education and Training
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Anti-racism
ISBN : 0777816105

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Antiracism and Ethnocultural Equity in School Boards by Ontario. Ministry of Education and Training Pdf

Author : Xuan Thuy Nguyen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463003049

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The Journey to Inclusion by Xuan Thuy Nguyen Pdf

This book offers insight on the politics of inclusion in Vietnam through a Foucauldian and post-colonial perspective on disability and education. Drawing on a socio-historical analysis of the inclusion of disabled people in Vietnam in the twenty-first century, the book guides readers through a ‘history of the present.’ By reflecting on the treatment of disabled people in Vietnamese social history, the book argues that this journey to inclusion calls for critical reflections on the challenges and possibilities for policies to transform exclusion for disabled people. The book unveils the problematics of social and educational institutions in governing disability and difference through a critical reflection on discourses and power in the global and local juncture, in relation to its engagement with disability in the global South. The intersection between the global politics of disability rights and development and the local politics of inclusion in Vietnam shapes the cultural politics of education. The ways inclusive education is historically constructed, within this socio-historical condition, reflects the challenges of inclusive thought and action for transforming injustice. Going beyond ‘deconstructive politics,’ The Journey to Inclusion argues for a re-positioning of the relationships between the global North and South as an alternative approach to inclusion. It suggests that critical research must construct a politics of engagement with subjugated voices and representations in transnational, national, and local contexts. A reflexive, critical, and inclusive dialogue that engages with Southern knowledge offers a political platform for reframing justice in the twenty-first century.

Author : Paul Cooper,Barbara Jacobs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470664841

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From Inclusion to Engagement by Paul Cooper,Barbara Jacobs Pdf

From Inclusion to Engagement challenges the ideologically driven academic discourse that has come to dominate inclusive education by presenting research-based knowledge about what actually works. Presents an innovative approach rooted in a biopsychosocial theoretical perspective – an approach that is still relatively misunderstood within the educational sphere Offers insights based on an extensive review of contemporary international research in the field Avoids the biases of ideology in favour of science-based social and educational outcomes The first comprehensive account of evidence-based interventions for students with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

Author : Tony Booth,Mary Masterson,Patricia Potts,Will Swann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136127724

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Policies for Diversity in Education by Tony Booth,Mary Masterson,Patricia Potts,Will Swann Pdf

The emphasis in this book shifts to the coordination of practice into schools, regional and national policies and the power and interest groups concerned with educational difficulties and disability. In the opening section the authors review the location of power in the systems; the impact of Local Management of Schools, case studies of Union policy, the National Curriculum Council and voluntary societies. They then look at one threatened element of the power structure - the local education authorities. They examine the features of local authority policy and attempt to systematise local policy. The experience of families is examined in their relationships with professionals, particularly during the preparation of Statements of Special Educational Need. This is followed by sections on services for under-fives, integrating education and the authors provide examples of changing school policies and the practices that have arisen from them; supporting the learning of all pupils in primary and secondary schools, changing the role of special schools, ensuring that girls and boys are provided with equal opportunities, writing a development plan and the experience of a teacher with a disability. They then examine policies and practices in education after school and finish with theories of integration and disability.

Author : Mara Sapon-Shevin
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807032808

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Widening the Circle by Mara Sapon-Shevin Pdf

Widening the Circle is a passionate, even radical argument for creating school and classroom environments where all kids, including children labeled as "disabled" and "special needs," are welcome on equal terms. In opposition to traditional models of special education, where teachers decide when a child is deemed "ready to compete" in "mainstream" classes, Mara Sapon-Shevin articulates a vision of full inclusion as a practical and moral goal. Inclusion, she argues, begins not with the assumption that students have to earn their way into the classroom with their behavior or skills, it begins with the right of every child to be in the mainstream of education, perhaps with modifications, adaptations, and support. Full inclusion requires teachers to think about all aspects of their classrooms—pedagogy, curriculum, and classroom climate. Crucially, Sapon-Shevin takes on arguments against full inclusion in a section of straight-talking answers to common questions. She agrees with critics that the rhetoric of inclusion has been used to justify eliminating services and "dumping" students with significant educational needs unceremoniously back into the mainstream with little or no support. If full inclusion is properly implemented, however, she argues, it not only clearly benefits those traditionally excluded but enhances the educations and lives of those considered mainstream in myriad ways. Through powerful storytelling and argument, Sapon-Shevin lays out the moral and educational case for not separating kids on the basis of difference.

Author : Carla Digiorgio
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3838321146

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Inclusive Education by Carla Digiorgio Pdf

Students with special needs have been found to have additional difficulties due to cultural, linguistic, and economic challenges at the school level (Manyak, 2002; Hanson and Gutierrez, 1997; McCray and Garcia, 2002; Gay, 2002). The school in this study faced these challenges as well, due to their mandate to develop minority culture in a hegemonic English environment. This ethnographic case study followed one school over the period of a year, as it implemented an inclusion policy as set out by a provincial government in Canada. A grounded theory approach led to a theory elaboration of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's theory of social organization (1996, 1992, 1986, 1982). Bourdieu's notions of habitus, capital, and field were applied to inclusion, and the results brought new insight into the relationship between individual and group experiences of school for all stakeholders involved in inclusion. This book will appeal to all educators, academics, advocates, policy makers, parents, students, and anyone interested in better understanding the role of identity and power in inclusive practice in schools.