Partnerships for Inclusive Education: A Critical Approach to Collaborative Working / Edition 1

by Liz Todd

Overview

Shortlisted for the NASEN/TES 2007 Book Award

Increased partnership between professionals, particularly through the integration of services, indicates a major opportunity for child and parent participation, but one that seems in danger of being side-stepped. Drawing on substantial research evidence, this book looks at reasons for this situation; what is happening now, what developments and initiatives have been tried and what can be done to develop a culture of participation?

Some of the main threats to participation are discussed in this book including:

• Has 'partnership' ever been?
• Who is excluded from 'partnership'?
• Which discourses have made participation illusive and what are the implications - theoretical and practical - for how we move forward?

Partnerships for Inclusive Education includes a helpful framework map which guides critical thinking towards the development of a culture of collaboration and presents original and stimulating ideas to open up the complex processes that can frustrate participative practice. Combining socio-cultural ideas with post-structural thinking gives this book a strong yet accessible theoretical basis, making it a valuable resource to both an academic and a professional educational audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415298452
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/30/2006
Edition description:	New
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Liz Todd is senior lecturer and Director of Educational Psychology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Table of Contents

1. What Partnerships for What Kind of Inclusive Education? 2. Being Seen and Heard and Making a Difference: How Children Participate 3. The Absent Special Guest: Children as Service Users 4. Parent Partnership: The Need for a Richer Story 5. Integrated Services: An Invitation to Inclusion… or Exclusion? 6. Participation for Inclusion: the Practice-People-Context Model 7. Towards Authentic Participation: Examples of Practice