Inclusive Education and the Issue of Change: Theory, Policy and Pedagogy

by A. Liasidou

Overview

Exploring the theoretical, policy and classroom (pedagogical) dimensions of transformative change within the context of inclusive education policy and practice, this book documents how ideological presuppositions and professional practice should be transformed in order to meet learner diversity in effective and non-discriminatory ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137333698
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/26/2015
Series:	Policy and Practice in the Classroom
Edition description:	2015
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Anastasia Liasidou is Assistant Professor of Inclusive (Special) Education at the European University Cyprus, Cyprus. From 2006-2010 she was a Senior Lecturer of Inclusive Practice and Education at the University of Roehampton, UK. She previously published Inclusive Education, Politics and Policymaking in 2012.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Neoliberal Reforms, the Crisis of Education 3. Inclusive Education Policymaking and the Question of Change 4.Theorizing Educational Change within the Context of Inclusion: Socio-Cultural and Whole-School Considerations 5. Inclusive Classrooms and the Issue of Change 6. Sustainable Inclusive Education Reforms 7. Disability Studies at the Cross-Road of Critical, Feminist, Anti-Racist Theories and the Issue of Change 8. Educational Leadership and Socially Just Change 9. Disability Studies and the Issue of Change; The Voices of Disabled People/Students 10. Conclusions Bibliography