Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1. What is Inclusive Education and Why All the Fuss?.- Chapter 2. Weighting the Consequences and Following the Rules.- Chapter 3. Virtue Ethics and the Possibilities of ‘Care’.- Chapter 4. Disability and the Limitations of Rights.- Chapter 5. Justice, Fairness, and the Inclusive School.- Chapter 6. Finding a Way Forward.- Index.
Roger Slee is the Professor of Disability and Inclusion in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at The University of Leeds. He is the founding editor of the International Journal of Inclusive Education and the Journal of Disability Studies in Education.
Gordon Tait is a professor in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, at the Queensland University of Technology. He teaches in the areas of the social contexts of education, research methodologies, and ethics. He has written books on Education, Sociology, Philosophy, Criminology and Cultural Studies. Currently his main research interests include: suicide and judicial decision-making, educational governance, and the shaping of the inclusive school.
This book reveals the entanglement of ethics, rights and justice in education. It aims to develop everyday philosophy to guide choices as we continue to attempt to make schools places for all comers. The authors offer education as a social good, a building block for inclusive communities. This assumes an ethical predisposition. Ethics and inclusive education takes the reader on a journey through the conceptual foundations of ethics, rights and justice to assist us to build a formulation of the fair or just society and the way ethical approaches to schooling may support or unravel that.