Short description:

This definitive collection of articles encompasses the broad field of inclusion and diversity, covering issues ralating to race, gender, ethnicity, ability and SEN.

Long description:

This four-volume set brings together seminal articles and key writings on the theme of inclusion and diversity in education. The collection takes disability and special educational need as a starting point from which to develop a broader focus on a range of themes relating to learners who may be marginalised from educational opportunities. This includes for example members of minority ethnic communities, students excluded from schools or who are 'looked after' in public care, and other dimensions of exclusion arising from social class, gender or sexuality.

The starting point for understanding inclusive education lies in social justice perspectives, and this forms the basis for the first volume. Volumes two and three focus on research aimed at developing more inclusive practices both at the levels of schools and school systems, and at the levels of inclusive pedagogy, enacted in the classroom and through the curriculum. Volume four reflects the range of voices in research on inclusive education, drawing on traditionally marginalised voices and those of learners in particular.

Three cross-cutting themes are represented across all four volumes:

-A chronological approach, showing how key concepts and perspectives have developed in each area of the literature.

-Identified groups of learners - developing more nuanced readings of how processes of exclusion and inclusion intersect dimensions such as disability, class and race

-Contexts for learning - such as urban education and global or comparative perspectives.

Table of Contents:

VOLUME 1
The Concept of Oppression and the Development of a Social Theory of Disability - P. Abberley
Synthesis of Research on Compensatory and Remedial Education - L. W. Anderson and L. O. Pellicer
The Repetition of Exclusion - J. Allan
Inclusion as Social Justice: Critical notes on discourses, assumptions, and the road ahead - A.J. Artiles, N. Harris-Murri and D. Rostenberg
The Historical Development of Special Education: Humanitarian rationality or 'wild profusion of entangled events'? - F. Armstrong
Education Markets, Choice and Social Class: The market as a class strategy in the UK and the USA - S. J. Ball
Competition, Selection and Inclusive Education: Some observations - L. Barton and R. Slee
Normalisation, Needs and Schools - S. Carson
Routes to Inclusion - P. Clough
Pseudo-science and Dividing Practices: A genealogy of the first educational provision for pupils with learning difficulties - I. Copeland
Special Education for the Mildly Retarded - is much of it Justifiable? - L.M. Dunn
Reframing Justice in a Globalizing World - N. Fraser
Reviewing the Literature on Integration - S. Hegarty
The Process of Reconstruction: An overview - G. Leyden
The Acquisition of a Child by a Learning Disability - R.P. McDermott
Changing the Way We Think About Kids with Disabilities: A conversation with Tom Hehir - E. Miller
Disability, Education and the Discourses of Justice - F. Rizvi and B. Lingard
Driven to the Margins: Disabled students, inclusive schooling and the politics of possibility - R. Slee
Witnessing Brown: Pursuit of an equity agenda in American education - A. Smith and E. B. Kozleski
Inclusive Education: The ideals and the practice - G. Thomas, D. Walker and J. Webb
Why a Sociology of Special Education - S. Tomlinson
Brown vs. Board of Education - E. Warren
VOLUME 2
Developing Inclusive Education Systems: What are the levers for change? - M. Ainscow
Inclusion and the Standards Agenda: Negotiating policy pressures in England - M. Ainscow, T. Booth and A. Dyson
The Politics of Official Knowledge: Does a national curriculum make sense? - M. Apple
Reinventing 'Inclusion': New Labour and the cultural politics of special education - D. Armstrong
Learning in Inclusive Education Research: Re-mediating theory and methods with a transformative agenda. - A.J. Artiles, E. Kozleski, S. Dorn and C. Christensen
Inclusion in Action: An in-depth case study of an effective inclusive secondary school in the south-west of England - E. Avramidis, P. Bayliss and R. Burden
Getting Started - D. Biklen
The Development of Young Children's Ethnic Identities: Implications for early years practice - P. Connolly
A Critical Examination of Special Education Programs - F. Christoplos and P. Renz
Gender and Learning: Equity, equality and pedagogy - H. Daniels and A. Creese
Making the Ordinary School Special - T. Dessent
The Puzzle of Inclusion: A case study of autistic students in the life of one high school - P. M. Ferguson
Persistent Absence from School and Exclusion from School: The predictive power of school and community variables - D. Galloway, R. Martin and B. Wilcox
Education Policy as an act of White Supremacy: Whiteness, critical race theory and education reform - D. Gillborn
Deviance and Education - D.H. Hargreaves, S.K. Hestor, and F.J. Mellor
Effective Inclusive Schools: A study in two countries - M. Rouse and I. Florian
Met Cognition and Passing: strategic interactions in the lives of students with learning disabilities - R. Rueda and H. Mehan
Learning Disabilities as Sociologic Sponge - G. M. Senf
The Special Education Paradox: Equity as the way to excellence - T. M. Skrtic
Excluding the Included: A reconsideration of inclusive education - R. Slee and J. Allan
The Place and The People - G. Thomas, D. Walker and J. Webb
Street Level Bureaucrats and Institutional Innovation: Implementing special education reform - R.A. Weatherley and M. Lipsky
Quality and Inequality in Children's Literacy: The effects of families, schools and communities - J. D. Willms
VOLUME 3
Making Sense of the Development of Inclusive Practices - M. Ainscow, A.J. Howes, P. Farrell and J. Frankham
Foucault and Special Educational Needs: A 'box of tools' for analysing children's experiences of mainstreaming - J. Allan
Differential Diagnosis - Prescriptive Teaching: A critical appraisal - J.A. Arter and J.R. Jenkins
Inclusion Power and Community: Teachers and students interpret the language of community in an inclusion classroom - R. Berry
Embracing the Faith, Including the Community? - T. Booth
Psychological Theory and the Study of Learning Disabilities - A.L. Brown and J.C. Campione
The Learning Disabilities Test Battery: Empirical and social issues - G. Coles
Teaching Approaches which Support Inclusive Education: A connective pedagogy - J. Corbett
The Silenced Dialogue: Power and pedagogy in educating other people's children - L.D. Delpit
Making Space in the Standards Agenda: Developing inclusive practices in schools - A. Dyson, F. Gallannaugh and A. Millward
The scientific Knowledge Base of Special Education: Do we know what we think we know? - D.J. Gallagher
Extending Inclusive Opportunities - M.F. Giangreco
Introducing Innovative Thinking - S. Hart
To Summarise - J. Holt
Skills Management Systems: A critique - D.D. Johnson and P.D. Pearson
How Specialized is Teaching Children with Disabilities and Difficulties? - B. Norwich and A. Lewis
A 'Turbulent' City: Mobility and social inclusion - P. Potts
The High/Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison Study through Age 23 - L.J. Schweinhart and D.P. Weikart
Pedagogy and Dialogue - D. Skidmore
Race and Special Education - S. Tomlinson
In Search of Inclusive Pedagogies: The role of experience and symbolic representation in cognition - T. Wrigley
VOLUME 4
Encounters with Exclusion through Disability Arts - J. Allan
Special Education's Changing Identity: Paradoxes and dilemmas in views of culture and space - A.J. Artiles
Research and Practice: The need for alternative perspectives - L. Barton
'SEN', Inclusion and the Elision of 'Failure' - S. Benjamin
Effects of Resources, Inequality, and Privilege Bias on Achievement: Country, school, and student level analyses - M.M. Chiu and L. Khoo
Problems of Identity and Method in the Investigation of Special Educational Needs - P. Clough
How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System - B. Coard
The Masculine Habitus as 'Distributed Cognition': A case study of 5- to 6 year old boys in an English inner-city, multi-ethnic primary school - P. Connolly
Maintaining Underclasses via Contrastive Judgement: Can inclusive education ever happen? - H. Cremin and G. Thomas
Beyond Special Education: Towards a quality system for all students - A. Gartner and D. Lipsky
Supporting the Development of More Inclusive Practices Using the Index for Inclusion - P. Hick
Integration, Italian style - M. Johnson
Special Education for the Mentally Handicapped - A Paradox - O.G. Johnson
'And When Did You Last See Your Father?' Exploring the views of children with learning difficulties/disabilities - A. Lewis
The Cultural Work of Learning Disabilities - R. McDermott, S. Goldman and H. Varenne
The Professional-lay Relationship: A Victorian legacy - E. Midwinter
Does Special Education have a Role to Play in the Twenty-first Century? - M. Oliver
The Discursive Practice of Learning Disability: Implications for instruction and parent-school relations - K. Reid and J. Valle
Thinking about Inclusion: Whose reason? What evidence? - G. Thomas and G. Glenny
The Expansion of Special Education - S. Tomlinson