Title: Inclusive schooling : national and international perspectives /
Authors: Vitello, Stanley J.; Mithaug, Dennis E.
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Inclusive education United States.; Students with disabilities Education United States.; Inclusive education Cross-cultural studies.; Students with disabilities Education Cross-cultural studies.
Abstract: This book is a kind of status report on what inclusive education has achieved and what it may achieve in the future for children and youth with disabilities. It describes the philosophical, legal, and practical terrain covered by inclusion policy in general and inclusive schooling in particular. Contributors assess inclusion policy and suggest ways to reconceptualize it, bringing to their data analysis a depth of experience and knowledge about public schooling in their respective countries. This volume is based on original papers presented by the contributing authors in October 1997 at the Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education on Inclusive Schooling; National and International Perspectives.
Contents: 1. The Alternative to Ideological Inclusion / Dennis E. Mithaug -- 2. The Law on Inclusion / Stanley J. Vitello -- 3. Changing Tactics: Embedding Inclusion Reforms Within General Education Restructuring Efforts / Dianne L. Ferguson -- 4. The Inclusion of Students With Disabilities in School Reform and Restructuring: An Analysis of Five Local School Districts / Margaret J. McLaughlin, Kelly Henderson and Lauren M. Rhim -- 5. Characteristics of Elementary School Classrooms Where Children With Moderate and Severe Disabilities are Included: A Compilation of Findings / Martha E. Snell -- 6. Factors for Successful Inclusion: Learning from the Past, Looking toward the Future / Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky and Alan Gartner -- 7. Parents and Inclusive Schooling: Advocating for and Participating in the Reform of Special Education / Leslie C. Soodak -- 8. Inclusion Practices in Canada: Social, Political, and Educational Influences / Margret A. Winzer -- 9. Challenges to Inclusive Education: A European Perspective / Seamus Hegarty -- 10. Inclusion Implementation and Practices In Scandinavia / Oddvar Vormeland.