Full Description
In this insightful text, the editors reflect on contributions from scholars representing Bangladesh, Greece, India, Israel, New Zealand, Switzerland, UK and USA, by showing how the majority of educational and social institutions in both developed and developing countries have failed to overcome the many barriers to an effective integrated system of education, suggesting ways as to how these barriers might be challenged.
By looking closely at the overt and covert injuries of educational and social exclusion, a variety of approaches to overcoming the consequences of those challenges is proposed, drawing together strands of social theory, research data and conceptualisations for social action.
Contents
Introduction and overview Gajendra K. Verma
PART I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
1. Education and social integration for all: Challenges and responses Gajendra K. Verma
2. Furthering social inclusion through citizenship education: Cultivating civic action in early childhood education Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
3. Pedagogies and partnerships for educating the whole child Carl A. Grant and Elisabeth Zwier
4. Broadstreaming through creative learning: An approach towards educational inclusion Vijoy Prakash
PART II: PERSPECTIVES ON POLICY AND PRACTICE
5. Inclusive education and societal development: An Indian perspective Ran Bijay N. Sinha and Rupa Lakshmi
6. The field of education in New Zealand: Inclusion/exclusion in schooling Charles Crothers
7. European Union policies for lifelong learning: A 'portal' to social inclusion? Eugenia A. Panitsidou
8. Educational policies and teachers' professional development: Disability issues Panagiotis Giavrimis, Stella Giossi and Adamantios Papastamatis
9. Gender parity: Inclusion in Bangladesh education Samir Ranjan Nath
PART III: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBLE RESPONSES TO INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
10. Challenges for education and inclusiveness in India Mohd Akhtar Siddiqui
11. Bilingual immigrant students and inclusive learning: Issues and challenges Eleni Griva
12. Dyslexia: A learning disability in the Indian context Mona Tabassum and Manju Kumari
13. Inclusive learning: The challenge of special needs Royston Flude
14. Reaching the unreached: Traverse of alternative and innovative schools K. Gireesan
Afterword Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
