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The Knowledge of Inclusive Education is a paradigm-shifting exploration of inclusive education as a dynamic knowledge practice. The knowledge that underpins the practice is understood through the metaphor of an ecology, with contributions from educators, students, policymakers, and international organisations.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Inclusive education: A knowledge practice based on an ecology of knowledges
Chapter 2: Types, typologies and triads: Knowledge for inclusive teaching
Chapter 3: "That's where the action is": Teacher educators in the inclusive education knowledge ecology
Chapter 4: Teachers as collective inclusive education knowledge bricoleurs
Chapter 5: "Think of what you could learn": Parent knowledge in the inclusive education knowledge ecology
Chapter 6: "They don't understand what we are going through": The value of student voice in the inclusive education knowledge ecology
Chapter 7: Topics, trends and trajectories: Academic knowledge in the inclusive education knowledge ecology
Chapter 8: Toolkits and guideline documents: Grey literature in the inclusive education knowledge ecology
Chapter 9: Policy knowledge-making in the inclusive education knowledge ecology
Chapter 10: A decolonial and ecological undoing and redoing of inclusive education knowledge
About the author
Elizabeth Walton is a Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham and a Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has previously published
Teacher Education for Diversity (2018, Routledge) and
The Language of Inclusive Education (2016, Routledge).
Summary
The Knowledge of Inclusive Education is a paradigm-shifting exploration of inclusive education as a dynamic knowledge practice. The knowledge that underpins the practice is understood through the metaphor of an ecology, with contributions from educators, students, policymakers, and international organisations.
