Whatever Happened to Inclusion?
The Place of Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Education
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Published:4th Dec '09
Should be back in stock very soon
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- Hardback£102.60(9781433104350)
Law, policy, and practice in the United States has long held that students with disabilities – including those with intellectual disabilities – have the right to a free and appropriate public education, in a non-restrictive environment. Yet very few of these students are fully included in general education classrooms. Educational systems use loopholes to segregate students; universities regularly fail to train teachers to include students; and state regulators fail to provide the necessary leadership and funding to implement policies of inclusion. Whatever Happened to Inclusion? reports on the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities from national and state perspectives, outlining the abject failure of schools to provide basic educational rights to students with significant disabilities in America. The book then describes the changes that must be made in teacher preparation programs, policy, funding, and local schools to make the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities a reality.
«A state of the union on inclusion, this book issues a report card for the nation’s schools. Phil Smith weaves a compelling story told in numbers about the lack of progress made in including all students, particularly those with intellectual disabilities, in the general education classroom. Contributing authors contextualize this larger story by focusing on the state of inclusion in particular contexts…. Smith and his contributors convincingly document small moments of possibility and progress, as well as the incessant backwards pull toward the status quo of segregated special education. Smith shows how the general education classroom remains a sacrosanct space – exclusionary, normative, and unyielding – and the disparate impact such exclusionary policies and practices have on students of color and students with disabilities.… Smith concludes this groundbreaking work with a set of guiding practices great and small that we can (and must) do as communities, as teacher educators, as policy makers, and as teachers to finally realize the promise of inclusion.» (Beth Ferri, Associate Professor in the School of Education, Syracuse University)
«A state of the union on inclusion, this book issues a report card for the nation’s schools. Phil Smith weaves a compelling story told in numbers about the lack of progress made in including all students, particularly those with intellectual disabilities, in the general education classroom. Contributing authors contextualize this larger story by focusing on the state of inclusion in particular contexts…. Smith and his contributors convincingly document small moments of possibility and progress, as well as the incessant backwards pull toward the status quo of segregated special education. Smith shows how the general education classroom remains a sacrosanct space – exclusionary, normative, and unyielding – and the disparate impact such exclusionary policies and practices have on students of color and students with disabilities.… Smith concludes this groundbreaking work with a set of guiding practices great and small that we can (and must) do as communities, as teacher educators, as policy makers, and as teachers to finally realize the promise of inclusion.» (Beth Ferri, Associate Professor in the School of Education, Syracuse University)
ISBN: 9781433104343
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 390g
254 pages