1st Edition
Action Research for Inclusive Education Changing Places, Changing Practices, Changing Minds
158 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book presents and discusses an approach to action research to help reverse discriminatory and exclusionary practices in education. Insider accounts of action research will help challenge assumptions about the limits of inclusive education, and offer examples of how change can be realistically achieved through processes of collaboration and participation. Written by a team of practitioner... Read more
1. Action Research: Developing Inclusive Practice and Transforming Cultures F. Armstrong & M. Moore 2. Disability and Empowerment: Personal Integrity in Further Education Research V. Thompson 3. From Confusion to Collaboration: Can Special Schools Contribute to Developing Inclusive Practice in Mainstream Schools? P. Zelaieta 4. Forging and Strengthening Alliances: Learning Support Staff and the Challenge of Inclusion C. Sorsby 5. Students Who Challenge: Reducing Barriers to Inclusion L. Simpson 6. 'We like to talk and we like someone to listen' Cultural Differences and Minority Values as Agents of Change M. Clifton 7. Ordinary Teachers, Ordinary Struggles: Including Children with Social and Communication Difficulties in Everyday Classroom Life K. Charles 8. 'What about me? I live here too!' Raising Voices and Changing Minds Through Participatory Research J. Gwynn 9. Changing Places: Gay Students, Teachers and Research Action C. J. Slater 10. Challenging Behaviour: Ours, Not Theirs K. Dunn
Biography
Felicity Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
Michele Moore is Director of the Inclusive Education and Equality Research Centre, University of Sheffield.
