- Title
- Inclusion in primary schools
- Creator
- Lyons, Gordon; Tassell, Ann
- Relation
- Inclusion in Action p. 446-488
- Relation
- http://www.cengage.com/aushed/instructor.do?product_isbn=9780170187626
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- This chapter aims to: Identify inclusive primary schools as holistic places of learning where staff (and parents) have a collective responsibility for all students. Explicate the importance of building a community of learning inclusive of all students, where staff recognise and provide for the full diversity of student learning needs. Foster an awareness of the nature and characteristics of best practice in inclusion in primary school settings. Describe a variety of processes and practices prerequisite to, and facilitative of building a school community's capacity for inclusion. Explain the diversity of challenges and experiences around successful transition into, through and out of primary schools. Explain and describe the critical role of good leadership in organisational change and development. Provide pre-service and early career teachers with the knowledge to engage confidently with their primary school colleagues in building an inclusive community of learning. Assist the reader to plan to engage as an active change agent in facilitating better inclusion outcomes for students with additional needs in primary schools.
- Description
- 3rd ed.
- Subject
- primary schools; inclusion; students; teachers; learning needs
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1037316
- Identifier
- uon:13423
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780170187626
- Language
- eng
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