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Policy, Experience and Change: Cross-Cultural Reflections on Inclusive Education

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Editors:
  1. L. Barton

    1. Institute of Education, University of london, London, UK

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  2. F. Armstrrong

    1. Institute of Education, University of london, London, UK

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  • Exploring contemporary issues relating to inclusive education internationally
  • Examines inclusive education from a number of perspectives, including human rights, policy and culture
  • Critically discovers cross-cultural research issues and values in inclusive education in a changing world

Part of the book series: Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives (INED, volume 4)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • L. Barton, F. Armstrrong
    Pages 1-4

  3. Policy, Experience and Change and the Challenge of Inclusive Education: The Case of England

    • Felicity Armstrong, Len Barton
    Pages 5-18

  4. Inclusive Education in Spain: A view from Inside

    • Ángeles Parrilla
    Pages 19-36

  5. The Integration of ‘Disabled’ Children in Ordinary Schools in France: A New Challenge

    • Eric Plaisance
    Pages 37-51

  6. ‘Made in Italy’: Integrazione Scolastica and the New Vision of Inclusive Education

    • Simona D’alessio
    Pages 53-72

  7. The Rhetoric of Inclusive Education in Libya: Are Children’s Right in Crisis?

    • Abdelbasit Gadour
    Pages 73-89

  8. The Lethargy of A Nation: Inclusive Education in India and Developing Systemic Strategies for Change

    • Mithu Alur
    Pages 91-106

  9. Inclusive Education in Trinidad and Tobago

    • Jennifer Lavia
    Pages 107-122

  10. Disability and Inclusive Education in Zimbabwe

    • Robert Chimedza
    Pages 123-132

  11. Towards Inclusive Education in Canada

    • Vianne Timmons
    Pages 133-146

  12. Educating the Other: A Journey in Cyprus Time and Space

    • Helen Phtiaka
    Pages 147-161

  13. To be or Not to be Included – That is the Question: Disabled Students in Third Level Education in Ireland

    • Tina Lowe, Patrick McDonnell
    Pages 163-176

  14. It’s a Fit-up! Inclusive Education, Higher Education, Policy and the Discordant Voice

    • Roger Slee
    Pages 177-188

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 189-199
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About this book

One of the qualities of this book is the authors’engagement with personal experience. This is part of the contextualising of issues within particular cultural, historical and social contexts. I shall begin the Foreword in the same spirit by recounting an experience that is still a foundation for analysing and developing my own understanding. This h- pened some twenty-five years ago. I was going with Vic Finkelstein, a disabled a- demic and activist, to a seminar, on a hot summer’s day, making our way across the Open University campus in Milton Keynes. The seminar was entitled ‘The Problems of Integration’. Making conversation with Vic I suggested that the seminar sounded int- esting. His response was immediate and direct: no it was not interesting – the problems for disabled people were the problems of segregation, not the problems of integration. As he did often for me, Vic turned understanding on its head and his seemingly simple observation carried ever-increasing ripples of critical questioning. Reading of international developments and of the specifics of education policy, provision and practice across the widely differing circumstances found in different nation states, from the majority as well as the minority world, challenges, deepens and confirms understanding. There are, not surprisingly, considerable diversities and c- monalities, and recurring themes that speak to both – and fire critical questioning. The complexities pretty quickly give food for thought and ring bells of caution. The first for me is the lack of digestion – the impossibility of comprehensive knowledge.

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"This book, the fourth volume in the series on Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives, is a collection of contributions and case studies from Canada in North America, England, Ireland … and Trinidad and Tobago from the Caribbean. … The book is … situated within the broad context of the series which is committed to ‘exploring the meaning and function of inclusive education in a world characterized by rapid social, economic and political change’. … The contributors range from professors, faculty deans and doctoral students." (Michael Omolewa, International Review of Education, Vol. 55, 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Education, University of london, London, UK

    L. Barton, F. Armstrrong

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