Rethinking Children and Inclusive Education: Opportunities and Complexities

ISBN-13: 9781472568373 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Publication date: 10/06/2016 Series: New Childhoods Pages: 280 Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d) Rethinking Children and Inclusive Education examines attitudes towards, and experiences of, children's marginalization and inclusion. Sue Pearson draws on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and reappraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of working and living with children with differing needs and learning challenges. This book adopts a broad view of inclusive education that embraces all, with examples mainly but not exclusively related to special educational needs; takes a nuanced perspective which goes beyond reductionist debates about placement; and gives attention to the wider educational and social contexts that envelop schools and those that follow schooling.Throughout, Rethinking Children and Inclusive Education acknowledges some of the tensio