The Making of the Inclusive School - 9780415155601

Taylor & Francis

This new book explores the arguments for inclusive schools. It combines a theoretical examination of inclusion and its rationale with the story of a group of schools in which teacher, assistants and children have to make inclusion happen. > \nInclusion is a buzzword of the 1990s. Politicians now stress their commitment to inclusion and social justice - not competition. For schools, inclusion means accepting and educating all children, irrespective of their difficulties.\nThe new inclusive mood is about including everyone in society's institutions. It has created a growing demand for schools to find effective ways of including and teaching all children - even those who at one time would have been sent to special schools.\nThe book combines a theoretical examination of inclusion and its rationale with the story of a group of schools in which teachers, assistants and children have striven to make inclusion happen.\nThis new book\n* explores the arguments for inclusive schools\n* examb