A longer road to inclusion

Abstract

Hazel Bines trained as a primary teacher in 1970 after taking a first degree in social sciences. She then worked in Sheffield as a class teacher in a primary school and as a subject teacher of history, geography and social studies in a comprehensive school where her interest in working with pupils with learning and behaviour difficulties took her into special education. Following SEN diploma and masters study alongside working in an assessment centre for juvenile delinquents and in a support service for pupils with behaviour problems, she became a SENCO in a comprehensive school. This experience encouraged her to do a Ph.D. on the redefinition of remedial education into a new conceptualisation of SEN provision in mainstream schools. In 1986 she was appointed as a lecturer in SEN at Oxford Brookes University where she subsequently became deputy head of the School of Education. In 1995 she became professor and head of teacher education at the University of Northumbria, and in 1999 she moved to the UK Government's Department for International Development as a senior education adviser. She is currently working in Pakistan. During her career she has also published numerous articles and books, on both SEN and on teacher and other professional education.