Inclusive education: making sense of everyday practice: Innovations and controversies: interrogating educational change

Plows, Vicky and Whitburn, Ben (eds.) (2017) Inclusive education: making sense of everyday practice: Innovations and controversies: interrogating educational change (Innovations and Controversies: Interrogating Educational Change, 6), vol. 6, Springer

Abstract

Inclusive education has emerged internationally over the past thirty y ears as a way of developing democratic citizenship. Core to inclusive principles are that improved equity in education can only be achieved by eliminating the economic, cultural and physical barriers that curre ntly impede learning for particular students. To strengthen inclusive practice to this end inexorably requires that we attempt to make sense of it in its current form: to examine how it is enacted in educationa l settings from early childhood, schools, and communities and further and higher education; to contemplate the restrictions that it might in advertently create; and to consider its effects on members of educatio nal communities. Contributions to this edited collection represent div erse perspectives, yet share a commitment to challenging existing form s of educational marginalisation through policy, practice, theory and pedagogy. The chapters emerged from discussions at the inaugural Inclu sive Education Summit that was held at Victoria University, Australia in 2015. They present research that was conducted in Australia, New Ze aland, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Spain and the UK—illustrating transnatio nal interests and diverse approaches to practice. Presented in four se ctions—provocations, pushing boundaries, diverse voices, and reflectio ns, the chapters explore everyday practice across a range of contexts: from educating culturally and linguistically diverse, refugee, and/or socially and economically disadvantaged students, to issues of divers ity brought about by and through gender, giftedness and disability. Th e book will appeal to academics, students and practitioners in discipl ines including: education, sociology, social work, social policy, earl y childhood, disability studies, and youth studies.

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Editor: Ben Whitburn

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