Testing and Inclusive Schooling - 9781138701489

Taylor & Francis

Testing and Inclusive SchoolingInternational Challenges and Opportunities\nAuthor(s): Bjorn Hamre, Anne Morin, Christian Ydesen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138701489, 978-1138701489\nSynopsis\nTesting and Inclusive Schooling provides a comparative perspective on seemingly incompatible global agendas and efforts to include all children in the general school system, thus reducing exclusion. With an examination of the international testing culture and the politics of inclusion currently permeating national school reforms, this book raises a critical and constructive discussion of these movements, which appear to support one another, yet simultaneously offer profound contradictions. \n\nWith contributions from around the world, the book analyses the dilemma arising between reforms that urge schools to move towards a constantly higher academic level, and those who practice a politics of inclusion leading to a gre.