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This practical and accessible text for educating students with special needs provides examples and tips on how to develop effective teaching and learning in inclusive settings.
Becoming an Inclusive Teacher
Becoming an Inclusive Teacher
Overview
This chapter will address the following issues:
- defining educational inclusion
- teacher influences upon inclusive learning
- individual pupil needs within whole-class contexts.
Introduction
The term ‘inclusion’ has been generally accepted as common parlance within today's education system and indeed in wider society. The inequalities of the past often led to the exclusion and isolation of individuals who were perceived as different and sometimes inferior by dint of their needs, abilities, social class, race, gender or culture. As a commitment to the endorsement of policies which promote equality has been achieved, so has it been recognised as wholly inappropriate to provide a school curriculum that provides, for example, experiences to boys from which girls are excluded, or the teaching of literature or music based solely ...
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