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Inclusive policy action : exploring the realities and knowledge of teachers implementing inclusive education

Kortman, Wendy 2010, Inclusive policy action : exploring the realities and knowledge of teachers implementing inclusive education VDM Verlag Dr Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG., Saarbrucken, Germany.

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Title Inclusive policy action : exploring the realities and knowledge of teachers implementing inclusive education
Author(s) Kortman, Wendy
Publication date 2010
Total pages 271 p.
Publisher VDM Verlag Dr Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG.
Place of Publication Saarbrucken, Germany
Summary Inclusive Policy Action recognizes the complexity of inclusive policy for teachers. However, the author presents a strong view that a constructive approach for future action can be accomplished by drawing on teachers' own accounts of the significant characteristics contributing to effective inclusion. Accordingly, teachers' work is recognized as a vital contributing factor to successful inclusion, despite the often over-powering emphasis on additional funding. For this reason the finer structures of changed pedagogy, the development of teacher knowledge and the vision of quality education for all students are explored using teachers' own voice to theorize and analyze the actuality of successful inclusive practice. The emergent characteristics relate to the importance of communicative infrastructures promoting knowledge within learning communities rather than political directives associated with inclusive education policy. These characteristics draw attention to the need to reconsider and revalue the knowledge and expertise generated by education policy actors, namely the teachers and school administrators involved in institutional planning and practice.
ISBN 9783639226355
3639226356
Language eng
Field of Research 130312 Special Education and Disability
Socio Economic Objective 970113 Expanding Knowledge in Education
HERDC Research category A1 Books - authored - research
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30026198
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