The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Inclusive Education

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Keith J. Topping, Sheelagh Maloney
Psychology Press, 2005 - Education - 263 pages

This invaluable text draws together an impressive selection of articles on inclusion from a broad base to bring clarity and lucidity to a complicated subject. Whilst the majority of available texts deal with inclusive education within narrow parameters, this book aims to extend our understanding of inclusion by discussing issues of race, social disadvantage, gender and other factors. It successfully integrates rigorous theorising and sound empirical research with clear, accessible and practical guidance for the practitioner.
The book has eighteen chapters divided into key topic areas such as:
* concepts and contexts
* exclusion
* gender, race, disability and social class
* action in schools
* post-school
* promoting and managing systemic change.
Each chapter ends with questions and issues for onward reflection. The book also includes an annotated list of further reading designed to prompt readers to develop their own successful systematic research. This is an important and useful text for postgraduate students, researchers, academics and policy makers in education.

 

Contents

Perceptions of inclusion
5
Action in schools
9
Structure and use of the book
11
the ideals and the practice
17
Key aspects of inclusion in practice
23
what why and how?
29
Conditions
36
are there limits?
41
Reflective questions
107
The challenge of truancy and school absenteeism
113
Initiatives in England
119
Teachers attitudes
125
numbers trends and variations
131
Exclusions in Wales Scotland Northern Ireland
140
Adapting curriculum and instruction
145
Policies for positive behaviour management
160

Findings from the focus group interviews
48
Pupils perspectives on their education
57
Pupils views on their education and
64
Reflective questions
71
Poverty and achievement
77
a problem of gender
83
Whos to blame?
90
exploring issues of gender race
95
Peer and crossage tutoring and mentoring schemes
173
Virginia Woolf High School
191
a case study of one inner city
205
how can it be improved?
221
Everybody in? The experience of disabled students
235
Introduction
250
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