1st Edition

Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education An International Perspective

Edited By Chris Forlin Copyright 2012
    254 Pages
    by Routledge

    254 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 provides a wealth of ideas about how to support teachers to become inclusive through the application of positive training approaches. Written by some of the most influential internationally acknowledged experts in teacher education for inclusion and highly experienced researchers, together the authors provide a plethora of ideas for teacher educators to ensure that their training is pertinent, accessible, and futures-orientated.

    This up to date and accessible book combines three key areas related to teacher education for inclusion, which provide:

    • A review of what is happening across the globe by offering examples from different regions;
    • Preparation for teachers to support learners with a range of diverse needs including disability, poverty, ethnicity, gender, cultural diversity, learning disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder, sensory impairments and those who are considered gifted and talented;
    • A consideration of systemic approaches, policy, and partnerships, and how these can be better employed in the future.

    This highly topical text will support all teaching professionals, educational systems, and schools in their transformation of inclusive teacher education.

    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

    3. Including children with disabilities in regular classes: Current climate and future direction in Malaysia
    4. HANIZ IBRAHIM

    5. A training model for enhancing the learning capacity of students with special needs in inclusive classrooms in Thailand
    6. PENNEE KANTAVONG

    7. Development of learning in regular class and measure of teacher education in China
    8. JIA–CHENG XU

    9. A Mosaic of models: Teacher education for inclusion in Israel
    10. GILADA AVISSAR

    11. The directions of Finnish teacher education in the era of revised Act on Basic Education
    12. OLLI–PEKKA MALINEN AND HANNU SAVOLAINEN

    13. Preparing teachers to meet the challenges of inclusive education in Negara Brunei Darussalam
    14. KATHLEEN TAIT AND LAWRENCE MUNDIA

    15. Emerging issues in teacher education for inclusion in the United States
    16. MICHAEL M. GERBER

      Part II

      Diversity and its challenges

    17. Diversity and its challenges for teachers
    18. CHRIS FORLIN

    19. Inclusion for innovation: The potential for diversity in teacher education
    20. GWANG–JO KIM AND JOHAN LINDEBERG

    21. Seven essential components for teacher preparation programs for inclusion
    22. HUMBERTO RODRÍGUEZ

    23. Gifted, talented or educationally disadvantaged? The case for including 'giftedness' in teacher education programs
    24. WILMA VIALLE AND KAREN B. ROGERS

    25. New dimensions of teacher education on the inclusivity of school guidance for regular schools
    26. MING–TAK HUE

    27. Gender and achievement in the UK and Hong Kong
    28. BECKY FRANCIS, YUK–YEE LUK–FONG AND CHRISTINE SKELTON

    29. Conceptualizing social inclusion within teacher education
    30. CATHY LITTLE AND DAVID EVANS

    31. Professional development for teachers of students with autism spectrum disorders in Hong Kong
    32. FUK–CHUEN HO

    33. The role of educators in facilitating resiliency that assists normalization for young people with disabilities
    34. NUR AISHAH HANUN, WAYNE HAMMOND AND KAMARULZAMAN KAMARUDDIN

      PART III

      Future directions: What is needed now?

    35. Future directions: What is needed now for effective inclusive teacher education?
    36. CHRIS FORLIN

    37. Interregional discussions around inclusive curriculum and teachers in light of the 48th International Conference on Education
    38. RENATO OPERTTI, JAYNE BRADY and LEANA DUNCOMBE

    39. Teacher education for inclusion in Europe: Challenges and opportunities
    40. AMANDA WATKINS AND VERITY DONNELLY

    41. The construction of an Institute–School–Community partnership of teacher education for inclusive education
    42. KUEN–FUNG SIN AND SIN–YEE LAW

    43. 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.