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Inclusive education continues to grow in popularity and acceptance in the United States. However, most teachers - general and special educators - are poorly prepared to be successful in inclusive classrooms and schools. Undoubtedly, the challenge to professionals involves the acquisition of new knowledge and skills. But inclusion requires far more. It calls upon educators to trouble everything they think they know about disability, to question their deepest ethical commitments, to take up the work of the Disability Rights Movement in the public schools, and to leap headlong into the deepest waters of the rich craft tradition of inclusive teaching. This book offers educators the guidance and resources to become great inclusive educators by engaging in a powerful process of personal and professional transformation.
List of contents
Contents: Carrie D. Wysocki: A Journey into Inclusive Education - Kimberly Millstead: It Takes a Whole School - Meghan Cosier: Using Numbers and Narrative to Support Inclusive Schooling - Zachary Rossetti: «It's always about the kids, not us»: Successful Elementary Co-teaching - Stacey Hodgins/S. Anthony Thompson: Spilt Milk Counts: Belonging and Moving on Down the Hall - Emily Nusbaum: Inclusive Education: A Messy and Liberating Venture - Alicia A. Broderick: «I don't have a special world for her to live in. She has to adapt to this one.» On Becoming a Renaissance Middle Schooler - Kathy Kotel: Including Talia: A Mother's Tale - Fran Bittman/Sarah Bickens/David J. Connor: Respecting and Reaching All Learners in English Language Arts Classes: A Glimpse into a New York City High School - Douglas Fisher/Nancy Frey: What 20+ Years of Secondary Inclusion Has Taught Us, - John Colin/Srikala Naraian: «Now, I'm part of the family ... well, almost!»: Family Matters for Schooling Success.
About the author
Scot Danforth is Professor and Director of the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University. He is a leading scholar in the fields of disability studies in education and inclusive education. His previous books include The Incomplete Child: An Intellectual History of Learning Disabilities, Vital Questions Facing Disability Studies in Education (with Susan Gabel), and Disability and the Politics of Education: An International Reader (with Susan Gabel).
Summary
This book offers educators the guidance and resources to become great inclusive educators by engaging in a powerful process of personal and professional transformation.
Report
«The best educators (and policy leaders, administrators, teachers, parents, students) know that in order to transform the lives of students everyone associated with schooling also requires transformation. In thoroughly captivating prose, Becoming a Great Inclusive Educator shows the way. Recognizing disability as a natural form of diversity, this book embraces struggle and exudes hopefulness. It is a richly drawn handbook that lays bare the history, theory, ethical underpinnings, caring practice, and everyday narratives of optimism in deeply imagined inclusive schooling that can make schools whole.» (Douglas P. Biklen, Dean Emeritus, School of Education, Syracuse University)
