Teaching and Learning in Diverse and Inclusive Classrooms: Key Issues for New Teachers, 2nd Ed

This accessible text focuses on diversity in education and the inclusion of all children and young people in all aspects of the school or college community. It provides an introduction to policy, theory and practical strategies in relation to diversity in education for practitioners, researchers and policy makers.

The fully revised and updated chapters discuss recent debates, research studies and current initiatives, particularly relating to teaching and learning, and conclude with key questions for student reflection.

Topics include:

• Inclusive education
• ethnic and cultural diversity
• challenging behaviour
• bullying
• gender identity and sexuality
• Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children
• special educational needs
• listening to parents
• religious and cultural diversity
• disability and human rights
• children and young people who are refugees or seeking asylum

Reflecting on legislative duties, personal values and the importance of listening to the voice of all learners, particularly those who may experience disadvantage or discrimination in educational settings, Teaching and Learning in Diverse and Inclusive Classrooms is a key resource for initial teacher training programmes and professional development courses.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Felicity Armstrong And Gill Richards

1. Inclusive education: school cultures, teaching and learning Felicity Armstrong
2. Half a million unseen, half a million unheard: inclusion for gender identity and sexual identity Marjorie Smith And Kelly Chambers

3 .What we know about bullying Neil Duncan and Johanna Myddleton

4. Supporting Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils Chris Derrington

5. The influence of gender in the classroom: How boys and girls learn Steve Bartlett and Diana Burton

6. Not in my image: ethnic diversity in the classroom Raphael Richards

7. Invisibility and Otherness: asylum-seeking and refugee students in the classroom Mano Candappa

8. I feel confident about teaching, but ‘SEN’ scares me. Moving from anxiety to confidence Gill Richards

9. Challenging students, challenging settings Jackie Scruton

10. Religious and cultural diversity and inclusive practice Micheal Reiss

11. Teachers working with teaching assistants Vikki Anderson and Linda Lyn-Cook

12. Including parents with disabled children Michele Moore

13. Why did he do that? Evidence-based teaching and learning Gill Richards

14. Global approaches to education, disability and human rights: Why inclusive education is the way forward Richard Rieser