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Authors: Keith Topping
ISBN-13: 9780415336642, ISBN-10: 0415336643
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Keith Topping

Book Synopsis

This invaluable text draws together an impressive selection of articles on inclusion from a broad base to bring clarity and lucidity to a complicated subject. Whilst the majority of available texts deal with inclusive education within narrow parameters, this book aims to extend our understanding of inclusion by discussing issues of race, social disadvantage, gender and other factors. It successfully integrates rigorous theorising and sound empirical research with clear, accessible and practical guidance for the practitioner.
The book has eighteen chapters divided into key topic areas such as:
* concepts and contexts
* exclusion
* gender, race, disability and social class
* action in schools
* post-school
* promoting and managing systemic change.
Each chapter ends with questions and issues for onward reflection. The book also includes an annotated list of further reading designed to prompt readers to develop their own successful systematic research. This is an important and useful text for postgraduate students, researchers, academics and policy makers in education.

Table of Contents

Introduction1
1Inclusive education : the ideals and the practice17
2Inclusive practice : what, why and how?29
3Inclusive education : are there limits?41
4Pupils' perspectives on their education57
5Social background and achievement73
6The context : a problem of gender83
7Connecting the disconnected : exploring issues of gender, 'race' and SEN within an inclusive context95
8The challenge of truancy and school absenteeism113
9School exclusions in the UK : numbers, trends and variations131
10Adapting curriculum and instruction145
11Policies for positive behaviour management160
12Peer and cross-age tutoring and mentoring schemes173
13Virginia Woolf High School191
14'The tide has turned' : a case study of one inner city LEA moving towards inclusion205
15Transition from school : how can it be improved?221
16Everybody in? : the experience of disabled students in further education235

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