Inclusion and Special Educational Needs Books

New and Published Books

1. Tackling Behaviour in your Primary School

   A practical handbook for teachers

   By Ken Reid, Nicola S. Morgan

   Tackling Behaviour in the Primary School provides ready-made advice and support for classroom professionals and can be used, read and adapted to suit the busy everyday lives of teachers working in primary schools today. This valuable text sets the scene for managing behaviour in the primary...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Running Records

   Authentic Instruction in Early Childhood Education

   By Mary Shea

   The most effective way to understand what a child knows about the reading process is to take a running record. In Running Records, Mary Shea demonstrates how teachers can use this powerful tool to design lessons that decrease reading difficulties, build on strengths, and stimulate motivation,...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Diverse Perspectives on Inclusive School Communities

   By Diana Tsokova, Jane Tarr

   What is an inclusive school community? How do stakeholders perceive their roles and responsibilities towards inclusive school communities? How can school communities become more inclusive through engagement with individual perspectives? Diverse Perspectives on Inclusive School Communities captures...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Creating Meaningful Inquiry in Inclusive Classrooms

   Practitioners' stories of research

   Edited by Phyllis Jones, Teresa Whitehurst, Jo Egerton

   In recent years, the concept of teachers as researchers in both special and mainstream school settings has become part of our everyday language. Whilst many educational practitioners will see the need for research within their setting, many may not be familiar with the technical elements they...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Children as Researchers in Primary Schools

   Choice, Voice and Participation

   By Sue Bucknall

   How often do your primary school pupils have the opportunity to engage in open-ended, sustained pieces of work that offer them choice and control? Do you find that the curriculum restricts openings to provide your pupils with real challenge? Is your school grappling with finding effective ways in...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education

   An International Perspective

   Edited by Chris Forlin

   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...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Educating Children and Young People with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

   Constructing Personalised Pathways to Learning

   By Carolyn Blackburn, Barry Carpenter, Jo Egerton

   The range of learning difficulties associated with children and young people who have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) has been highlighted as an emerging but little understood area of Special Educational Needs. This engaging, timely and highly practical book will raise awareness about FASD...

   Published May 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. Hit the Headlines

   Exciting journalism activities for improving writing and thinking skills

   By Colin Macfarlane

   Hit the Headlines charts out a series of fun and inspiring, cross-curricular journalism workshops that enhance key skills and confidence in areas such as: Writing and editing. Critical assessment. Interviewing and observation. Mental flexibility and resourcefulness. Role-playing and...

   Published May 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. New Perspectives in Special Education

   Contemporary philosophical debates

   By Michael Farrell

   This book should be read by everyone who wants to understand special education today. New Perspectives in Special Education opens the door to the fascinating and vitally important world of theory that informs contemporary special education. It examines theoretical and philosophical...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Educating Special Children

    An introduction to provision for pupils with disabilities and disorders, 2nd Edition

    By Michael Farrell

    Educating Special Children is the definitive guide to evidence-based practice and professionally informed approaches in provision for special children. Now in its second edition, this book outlines ideas of best practice that relate to various disabilities and disorders and helpfully discusses what...

    Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge