Inclusive education : learners and learning contexts / edited by Melanie Nind, Kieron Sheehy and Katy Simmons.

1. Introduction / Melanie Nind, Katy Simmons, Kieron Sheehy and Jonathan Rix -- Pt. 1. More than just the three 'R's -- 2. Reciprocal working by education, health and social services: lessons for a less-travelled road / Roy McConkey -- 3. Child and parent relationships with teachers in schools responsible for the education of children with serious medical conditions / Claire Norris and Alison Closs -- 4. Children's homes and school exclusion: redefining the problem / Isabelle Brodie -- 5. Inclusion for the difficult to include / John Visser, Ted Cole and Harry Daniels -- 6. Early intervention in emotional and behavioural difficulties: the role of nurture groups / Paul Cooper and Jane Lovey -- Pt. 2. Transitions -- 7. Inclusion at Bangabandhu Primary School / Cathy Phillips and Helen Jenner -- 8. Autism in special and inclusive schools: 'there has to be a point to their being there' / Priscilla Alderson and Christopher Goodey -- 9. The Index for Inclusion: personal perspectives form early years educators / Peter Clough and Cathy Nutbrown -- 10. Changing from a special school to an inclusion service / Carol Bannister, Viviene Sharland, Gary Thomas, Vivian Upton and David Walker -- 11. Voices from segregated schooling: towards an inclusive education system / Tina Cook, John Swain and Sally French -- Pt. 3. On the margins -- 12. Interviews with young people about behavioural support: equality, fairness and rights / Paul Hamill and Brian Boyd -- 13. Disadvantage and discrimination compounded: the experience of Pakistani and Bangladeshi parents of disabled children in the UK / Qulsom Fazil, Paul Bywaters, Zoebia Ali, Louise Wallace and Gurnam Singh -- 14. Teachers and Gypsy Travellers / Gwynedd Lloyd, Joan Stead, Elizabeth Jordan and Claire Norris -- 15. Peer support for young people with same-sex attraction / Colm Crowley, Susan Hallam, Rom Harre and Ingrid Lunt -- 16. Inclusive curricula? Pupils on the margins of special schools / Melanie Nind and Steve Cochrane -- 17. Exclusion: a silent protest / Janet Collins -- Pt. 4. Inside classrooms -- 18. Learning without limits / Susan Hart -- 19. From 'curriculum access' to 'reflective, reciprocal learning' / Susan F. Simmons -- 20. Gender, 'special educational needs' and inclusion / Shereen Benjamin -- Pt. 5. Beyond classrooms -- 21. Bridges to literacy / Eve Gregory.

"This edited collection by academics and professionals engages with a diversity of learners and learning contexts within the sphere of inclusive education." "Aiming to explore questions such as, how to respond to children at risk of exclusion, and what we can learn from each other in enhancing inclusion, this book includes: an examination of issues of gender, ethnicity, class, culture, sexuality and disability; a focus upon inclusive practice in different schools, different classrooms and beyond." "This book is a resource for students, teachers undergoing continual professional development, teaching assistants, inclusion coordinators and social workers."--BOOK JACKET.

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