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From them to us : an international study of inclusion in education / edited by Tony Booth and Mel Ainscow.

Title
From them to us : an international study of inclusion in education / edited by Tony Booth and Mel Ainscow.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Booth, Tony.
  • Ainscow, Mel
  • Booth, Tony, 1944-
Description
viii, 271 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
A unique comparative study in which the editors have brought together and international team of researchers from eight countries to develop case studies exploring inclusion and exclusion in schools and then in the national context.
Subject
  • Inclusive education > Case studies
  • Inclusive education > Cross-cultural studies
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Cross-cultural studies
  • Case studies.
  • Cross-cultural studies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and indexes.
Contents
  • From them to us: setting up the study -- USA: I kind of wonder if we're fooling ourselves / Liinda Ware -- USA response: liberating voices? -- Scotland: mainstreaming at the margins / Julie Allan -- Scotland response: professionals at the centre? -- New Zealand: inclusive school, inclusive philosophy? / Keith Ballard and Trevor MacDonald -- New Zealand response: one philosophy or two? -- Norway: adapted education for all? / Kari Nes Mordal and Marit Stromstad -- Norway response: adapted education for some?
  • Netherlands: a springboard for other initiatives / Gerry J. Reezigt and Sip Jan Pijl -- Netherlands response: plunging into inclusion? -- Ireland: integration as appropriate, segregation where necessary / Jim Bennet, Hugh Gash and Mark O'Reilly -- Ireland response: limited resources for inclusion? -- Australia: inclusion through categorisation? / Jeff Bailey -- Australia response: paying attention to disorder? -- England: inclusion and exclusion in a competitive system / Tony Booth, Mel Ainscow and Alan Dyson -- England response: we wonder if we're fooling ourselves -- Making comparisons: drawing conclusions.
ISBN
  • 0415187397
  • 0415139791 (pb)
LCCN
^^^97043154^
OCLC
  • 37870657
  • SCSB-10956290
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library