Share
Managing Special and Inclusive Education
Courses:
Inclusion/ Mainstreaming
Inclusion/ Mainstreaming
October 2007 | 232 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This book is a guide to special and inclusive education and provides a comprehensive overview of this complex field. Author Stephen Rayner examines context, policy, and practice, and shows how to successfully navigate the managerial challenges involved, while contributing to the way forward through leadership in a diverse field.
The author considers the present inclusion imperative with its implications for strategic leadership, planning, and provision. He presents an inclusive style of leadership for an integrative management of individual differences in education, as well as a critical review of managing inclusive learning and teaching in school contexts.
Written for both aspiring and practicing school leaders as well as those interested in its development, this book is essential for those with responsibility for inclusion, school leaders in special schools, SENCOs, SEN advisors, and students on SEN management CPD or NPQH courses.
The author considers the present inclusion imperative with its implications for strategic leadership, planning, and provision. He presents an inclusive style of leadership for an integrative management of individual differences in education, as well as a critical review of managing inclusive learning and teaching in school contexts.
Written for both aspiring and practicing school leaders as well as those interested in its development, this book is essential for those with responsibility for inclusion, school leaders in special schools, SENCOs, SEN advisors, and students on SEN management CPD or NPQH courses.
Tables
Figures
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Part I Understanding special education and an inclusion policy: the knowledge context?
CHAPTER 1 Understanding SEN policy since Warnock (1978)
CHAPTER 2 The inclusion imperative: an educational ideal
CHAPTER 3 The MISE Model: managing inclusion and special education
Part II Inclusive leadership, managing change and networking: the professional learning context?
CHAPTER 4 Inclusive Leadership: a relational practice and professional praxis
CHAPTER 5 Growing the learning community: culture, change and quality assurance
CHAPTER 6 Knowledge flow, agency and partnership: networking support for learning
Part III Inclusive leadership and managing change enabling the learning professional?
CHAPTER 7 The SENCO: managing support for learning and success in the school community
CHAPTER 8 Moving forward: including exclusion, PSE and diversity
CHAPTER 9 Managing learning differences and a differential pedagogy
CHAPTER 10 Conclusion: Managing differences, 2020 vision and a personalized education
Sample Materials & Chapters
Additional Resources Part One PPS
Additional Resources Part Two PPS
Additional Resources Part Three PPS
