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Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education: An International Perspective book cover

1st Edition

Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education An International Perspective

Edited By Christine Forlin Copyright 2012
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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Are teachers ready for inclusion? What is appropriate teacher education? Traditional approaches to inclusive education focused on learners with disabilities. Modern approaches, however, conceptualise inclusion in terms of providing educational equity and equality of access for all students within the same regular school system. Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education... Read more

List of tables

List of figures

List of contributors

Editorial Board

Foreword

Preface

Part I

Global perspectives on teacher education for inclusion

  1. Responding to the need for inclusive teacher education: Rhetoric or reality?

    2. CHRIS FORLIN

  2. Including children with disabilities in regular classes: Current climate and future direction in Malaysia

    3. HANIZ IBRAHIM

  3. A training model for enhancing the learning capacity of students with special needs in inclusive classrooms in Thailand

    4. PENNEE KANTAVONG

  4. Development of learning in regular class and measure of teacher education in China

    5. JIA–CHENG XU

  5. A Mosaic of models: Teacher education for inclusion in Israel

    6. GILADA AVISSAR

  6. The directions of Finnish teacher education in the era of revised Act on Basic Education

    7. OLLI–PEKKA MALINEN AND HANNU SAVOLAINEN

  7. Preparing teachers to meet the challenges of inclusive education in Negara Brunei Darussalam

    8. KATHLEEN TAIT AND LAWRENCE MUNDIA

  8. Emerging issues in teacher education for inclusion in the United States

    9. MICHAEL M. GERBER

    Part II

    Diversity and its challenges

  9. Diversity and its challenges for teachers

    10. CHRIS FORLIN

  10. Inclusion for innovation: The potential for diversity in teacher education

    11. GWANG–JO KIM AND JOHAN LINDEBERG

  11. Seven essential components for teacher preparation programs for inclusion

    12. HUMBERTO RODRÍGUEZ

  12. Gifted, talented or educationally disadvantaged? The case for including 'giftedness' in teacher education programs

    13. WILMA VIALLE AND KAREN B. ROGERS

  13. New dimensions of teacher education on the inclusivity of school guidance for regular schools

    14. MING–TAK HUE

  14. Gender and achievement in the UK and Hong Kong

    15. BECKY FRANCIS, YUK–YEE LUK–FONG AND CHRISTINE SKELTON

  15. Conceptualizing social inclusion within teacher education

    16. CATHY LITTLE AND DAVID EVANS

  16. Professional development for teachers of students with autism spectrum disorders in Hong Kong

    17. FUK–CHUEN HO

  17. The role of educators in facilitating resiliency that assists normalization for young people with disabilities

    18. NUR AISHAH HANUN, WAYNE HAMMOND AND KAMARULZAMAN KAMARUDDIN

    PART III

    Future directions: What is needed now?

  18. Future directions: What is needed now for effective inclusive teacher education?

    19. CHRIS FORLIN

  19. Interregional discussions around inclusive curriculum and teachers in light of the 48th International Conference on Education

    20. RENATO OPERTTI, JAYNE BRADY and LEANA DUNCOMBE

  20. Teacher education for inclusion in Europe: Challenges and opportunities

    21. AMANDA WATKINS AND VERITY DONNELLY

  21. The construction of an Institute–School–Community partnership of teacher education for inclusive education

    22. KUEN–FUNG SIN AND SIN–YEE LAW

  22. Teacher education for inclusion: A research agenda for the future

LANI FLORIAN

Index

Biography

Chris Forlin is Professor of Special and Inclusive Education, Hong Kong Institute of Education.

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