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Title Leadership for inclusive education : values, vision and voices / edited by G. Mac Ruairc, E. Ottesen, and R. Precey
Published Rotterdam ; Boston : SensePublishers, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in inclusive education ; v. 18
Studies in inclusive education (Sense Publishers) ; v. 18.
Contents Leadership for Inclusive Education / Gerry Mac Ruairc, Eli Ottesen, Robin Precey -- Socio-Cultural Context -- Including Who? Deconstructing the Discourse / Gerry Mac Ruairc -- Special Education within the Context of an Inclusive School / Alison Ekins -- Identity, Inclusion and Leadership / Antonio Portela -- Inclusion Through the Lens of School Culture / Roman Dorczak -- Policy Context -- Pulling together, not Pulling Apart / Robin Precey -- Leading Inclusive Schools / Gerry Mac Ruairc -- Inclusion / Eli Ottesen -- Teaching for Democratic Agency / Tor Colbjørnsen -- Leadership Domaing -- Leadership for Inclusion / Robin Precey, Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz -- Leadership and Inclusion / Eli Ottesen -- Leadership for Inclusion / Robin Precey, María Jesús Rodríguez Entrena, Coleen Jackson -- Staff Development for Inclusion / Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz -- Students and Leadership for Inclusion / Antonio Portela -- Developing Participation for Inclusion through International Critical Friendship / Fiona Stephens -- Coda / Gerry Mac Ruairc, Eli Ottesen, Robin Precey
Summary Inclusion is increasingly becoming one of the policy drivers shaping educational discourse and practice. What constitutes the term "inclusion" itself and how ideas derived from the different perspectives on inclusion impact school leadership practice point to a highly contested field of enquiry. Originally embedded in discourse relating to special education, ideas relating to inclusion are attracting much broader appeal within system reforms in many jurisdictions. This book seeks to keep the consideration of inclusion firmly in its broader context and to decouple it from the discourse relating to students with special educational/additional needs. This allows the authors to position their contributions more explicitly within discourses that draw on difference and diversity as unavoidable features of schools. Within this collection we address the current political dogmas in many countries that take a purely rational, managerial approach to leadership, arguing that this is not contributing to inclusion in schools. In doing this, the book seeks to shape current discourses on leadership by exploring perspectives which are likely to enhance our understanding of inclusion. Tolerance, respect, listening, clarifying language, being comfortable with differences and ambiguity and articulating and challenging the rationale behind "the way we do things around here" are key aspects of inclusive leadership, and also fundamental imperatives for writing this book. It will be useful to those in education who are engaged in further academic study in education or in reflective practice and to anyone taking advanced programmes in educational leadership and management. The international perspectives on the issue of inclusion informing this book ensure that this book will be essential for those engaged in a comparative analysis of leadership practice in different
Contexts or those concerned with the complexity of ensuring inclusive models of education
Analysis Education
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Inclusive education.
Mainstreaming, Education
EDUCATION -- Inclusive Education.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Inclusive education
Form Electronic book
Author Mac Ruairc, G. (Gerry)
Ottesen, Eli.
Precey, R. (Robin)
ISBN 9789462091344
946209134X
9462091331
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9462091323
9789462091320
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9781299702530