Struggles for Inclusive Education

Argumento de Struggles for Inclusive Education

In its detailed analysis of primary school teachers' and pupils' attitudes towards integration, this book locates the question of inclusive education within the wider educational context. The wealth of original interview material sheds new light on the reality of everyday life in an educational setting, and shows us the nature and intensity of the struggles experienced by both teachers and pupils in their efforts to promote more inclusive school practices. The author's sensitive investigation of the relationship between teachers' contradictory views of the 'special' and their integration, and the wider social structures in which teachers work, adds to our understanding of the inevitable difficulties in promoting inclusive educational practices within a system which functions via exclusive mechanisms.

The book will be of interest to students of education, sociology and disability as well as teachers and policy-makers involved in inclusive education. The original methodologies adopted when working with the children will also appeal to students of attitudinal, disability and educational research.Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part one: Setting the theoretical scene

Disability, normality and special needs
political concepts and controversies
Towards a better understanding of attitudes

Part two: teachers" perspectives

Setting the scene
teachers and the changing culture of teaching
Teacher"s attitudes towards the integration process

Part three: Children"s perspective

The integration debate from the children"s point of view
Disabled children within the realm of childhood culture
Conclusion
Appendices
Index.