1st Edition
The Language of Inclusive Education Exploring speaking, listening, reading and writing
By Elizabeth Walton
Copyright 2016
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Language of Inclusive Education is an insightful text which considers the writing, speaking, reading and hearing of inclusive education. Based on the premise that humans use language to construct their worlds and their realities, this book is concerned with how language works to determine what we know and understand about issues related to in/exclusion in education. Using a variety of... Read more
1. Inclusive education as a discourse 2. Inclusive education as an ideology or field 3. The meaning of inclusive education 4. Metaphors that matter in inclusive education 5. Inclusive education on the (university) library shelf 6. Languaging ADHD 7. Reading and writing in/exclusion: The schadenfreude of Asperger’s Syndrome 8. Speaking and hearing in/exclusion
Biography
Elizabeth Walton is a Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education at the School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
"Author Walton makes a good case for the need to include children with special needs in all aspects of education, and focuses on how the “language” of disability continues to be a major obstacle to the integration of all children into classrooms." - J. D. Neal, Choice
