Inclusive education, politics and policymaking : contemporary issues in education studies / Anastasia Liasidou.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-169) and index.

Table of Contents -- Cover -- Half title -- Series page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Perspectives on Inclusion: Discourses, Politics and Educational Practice -- Introduction -- Defining inclusion: a semantic chameleon -- Inclusive education and the question of change -- Perspectives on inclusion -- Summary -- 2. Pedagogy for Inclusion -- Introduction -- Inclusive pedagogy: a paradigm shift -- Educational differentiation for socially just and non-discriminatory learning -- The principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) -- Inclusive pedagogy and teachers' professionalism -- Summary -- 3. Special Education Policymaking: A Critique -- Introduction -- Theorizing special education: a historical perspective -- The politics of special educational needs and disability -- Theorizing special education: a new perspective -- Postmodern/poststructural theorizing and special education -- Postmodern/poststructural theorizing: a multi-paradigm shift and its implications for special education policy and practice -- Theoretical pluralism under scrutiny: implications for political action -- 4. Understanding Inclusive Education Policymaking -- Introduction -- Inclusive education policy analysis -- The politics of inclusive educational policymaking -- Summary -- 5. Defining the Notion of Ideology: The Interplay of Ideas -- Introduction -- Understanding ideology -- Language, ideology, power relations and educational policymaking -- Ideology and the interplay of action and structure: an exploratory agenda -- Ideologies and the politics of inclusive educational policymaking -- Summary -- 6. Inclusive Policies and Institutional Conditions -- Introduction -- Constitutional and legislative conditions -- Administrative-political and bureaucratic conditions -- Economic conditions -- Deconstructing legislation: deconstructing unequal power relations -- Summary -- 7. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Inclusive Education Policymaking -- Introduction -- Globalization and inclusion: the dialectic of the global and the local -- Policy borrowing in inclusive education -- 8. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

"A critical overview on the history of inclusive education policy and practice developments, with suggestions for possible ways forward"-- Provided by publisher.

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