The Inclusion Dialogue: Debating Issues, Challenges and Tensions with Global Experts

The Inclusion Dialogue: Debating Issues, Challenges and Tensions with Global Experts brings together a series of global expert views on inclusive education, revealing the evolving tensions in this research area and highlighting future directions.

Key features:

• Provides reflections of leading academics on the topic of inclusive education
• Gives perspectives from different national contexts
• Is written in the context of human rights and education
• Highlights inclusive teaching and learning strategies that support inclusion
• Emphasises ongoing tensions in the debates around special and inclusive education.

Based on fascinating and unique conversations with leading academic experts across the globe, Joanne Banks uses in-depth interviews to examine current debates in special and inclusive education and provides a clear overview of the key tensions which impact policy and practice across different national contexts. Her book also highlights how inclusive education policies do not always translate into inclusive practices in our schools. The dialogue presented in this accessible text provides readers with insights into our conceptual understanding of inclusion within the context of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.

Through these informal discussions, this book is ideal for academics and researchers working in the area of inclusive and special education, for educators wishing to create more inclusive environments for their students, and for policy-makers seeking to understand what inclusive education looks like on the ground.

Table of Contents

10. Children’s rights and school inclusion in Scotland: tensions and challenges

11. Inclusive education; Imposition or a process of shared international learning?

12. Everybody belongs, and they belong in their local school

13. Listening to the voices of experts: global tensions in inclusive education