Inclusive education, politics and policymaking : contemporary issues in education studies /
Anastasia Liasidou.
- ix, 175 pages ; 25 cm.
- Contemporary issues in education studies .
- Contemporary issues in education studies. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-169) and index.
Table of Contents -- Cover -- Half title -- Series page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Understanding Inclusive Education Policymaking -- Introduction -- Inclusive education policy analysis -- The politics of inclusive educational policymaking -- Summary -- 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 -- Inclusive Policies and Institutional Conditions -- Introduction -- Constitutional and legislative conditions -- Administrative-political and bureaucratic conditions -- Economic conditions -- Deconstructing legislation: deconstructing unequal power relations -- Summary -- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Inclusive Education Policymaking -- Introduction -- Globalization and inclusion: the dialectic of the global and the local -- Policy borrowing in inclusive education -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
"A critical overview on the history of inclusive education policy and practice developments, with suggestions for possible ways forward"--