This book presents and discusses an approach to action research to help reverse discriminatory and exclusionary practices in education. Insider accounts of action research will help challenge assumptions about the limits of inclusive education, and offer examples of how change can be realistically achieved through processes of collaboration and participation. Written by a team of practitioner researchers drawn from a wide range of schools and services, this book addresses a wide range of real-life situations by exploring ways in which teachers have tackled inequalities in the school...
This book presents and discusses an approach to action research to help reverse discriminatory and exclusionary practices in education. Insider acc...
This book presents and discusses an approach to action research to help reverse discriminatory and exclusionary practices in education. Insider accounts of action research will help challenge assumptions about the limits of inclusive education, and offer examples of how change can be realistically achieved through processes of collaboration and participation. Written by a team of practitioner researchers drawn from a wide range of schools and services, this book addresses a wide range of real-life situations by exploring ways in which teachers have tackled inequalities in the school...
This book presents and discusses an approach to action research to help reverse discriminatory and exclusionary practices in education. Insider acc...
This is an extremely important book containing a wealth of ideas and insights and raising important questions for discussion and further exploration. In a lucid and cogently argued analysis, the author both challenges dominant ideas and interp- tations and provides some alternative innovatory perspectives. These include, the making and meaning of policy; the varied and complex ways in which inclusion and exclusion can be understood; the nature and function of categorisation, labelling and discursive practices within official discourse and procedures and the position and relationship between...
This is an extremely important book containing a wealth of ideas and insights and raising important questions for discussion and further exploration. ...
This is an extremely important book containing a wealth of ideas and insights and raising important questions for discussion and further exploration. In a lucid and cogently argued analysis, the author both challenges dominant ideas and interp- tations and provides some alternative innovatory perspectives. These include, the making and meaning of policy; the varied and complex ways in which inclusion and exclusion can be understood; the nature and function of categorisation, labelling and discursive practices within official discourse and procedures and the position and relationship between...
This is an extremely important book containing a wealth of ideas and insights and raising important questions for discussion and further exploration. ...
One of the qualities of this book is the authors engagement with personal experience. This is part of the contextualising of issues within particular cultural, historical and social contexts. I shall begin the Foreword in the same spirit by recounting an experience that is still a foundation for analysing and developing my own understanding. This h- pened some twenty-five years ago. I was going with Vic Finkelstein, a disabled a- demic and activist, to a seminar, on a hot summer s day, making our way across the Open University campus in Milton Keynes. The seminar was entitled The Problems of...
One of the qualities of this book is the authors engagement with personal experience. This is part of the contextualising of issues within particular ...
This collection explores ways in which theories of space and place can be used in understanding processes of exclusion and inclusion in education. The contributions foreground how the spatial turn and geographical knowledges can inform:
debates on the relationships between learning, space and place
understandings of the ways in which space and place affect education and learning
familiar research agendas through the application of conceptual perspectives from different disciplines
The ten chapters which make up this book are by...
This collection explores ways in which theories of space and place can be used in understanding processes of exclusion and inclusion in education. ...
