Effective Inclusive Education Research Articles

Creating Visible Children?

Creating Visible Children?

The effects of inclusive education on social studies through collaboration between general and special education teacher to the workinf participation of students with disabilities and awareness of general students toward students with disabilities

The effects of inclusive education on social studies through collaboration between general and special education teacher to the workinf participation of students with disabilities and awareness of general students toward students with disabilities

Qualitative Research on the recognition of kindgarten teachers on effects of inclusive education of the disabled infants

Qualitative Research on the recognition of kindgarten teachers on effects of inclusive education of the disabled infants

A Disability Rights in Education Model for evaluating inclusive education

Current models for evaluating inclusive education programs tend to examine surface‐level stricture of day‐to‐day practices in the organization and operation of schools and also lack significant input from disabled people. In response, the authors have developed a DRE Model to understand and evaluate effective Inclusive Education that is derived from reports of international consumer organizations such as Disabled People’s International, Inclusion International, and the World Institute on Disability. The DRE Model draws from the interdisciplinary field of disability studies and is based on the philosophy that disability must be approached in its full social dimension as one of the central elements in every culture’s response to the full range of human difference. Conceptually, the DRE Model allows people to look at developments in Inclusive Education across widely disparate local and international contexts. An inclusive education project in Lesotho is described and analysed to explain the DRE Model’s dynamic processes more concretely, and to demonstrate its potential utility for evaluation and future planning.

Addressing Theory Ethics, Power, and Privilege in Inclusion Research and Practice

In this article, we elucidate the complexities involved in serving economically disadvantaged culturally and linguistically diverse students with disabilities in inclusive settings. Moreover, we illustrate how cultural-historical activity theory can be used to study inclusion more substantively and to identify modes of discourse that might lead to more efficacious outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse learners and their teachers. Throughout this discussion, we focus on ethics, power, privilege and how these concepts must be considered broadly and continually in order to promulgate more equitable and effective inclusive education practices. In addition, we provide implications for future practice, teacher education, and research,

The Development of Special Education in China

Although China has a civilized history and distinguished Confucian tradition of valuing education, special education as an institution was not established until the 19th century, when Western culture began to influence China. The subsequent development of special education has been slow due to adverse political and economic conditions. After the 1980s, a modern system of special education from preschool to higher education was formed, and since then, China has been moving toward the goals of effective inclusive education in response to global trends and the open-reform policy. Through analyzing the characteristics of the development of special education and the composition of the modern special education system in China, the authors reveal the critical social and cultural variables that underlie the development of special education: economic conditions, the Confucian tradition, Western cultural influences, and prevailing Socialist ideology. These factors have contributed to bringing about changes in special education in China, from no special education to special education starting at birth, from minimal to large-scale special education, and from segregation to inclusion.

The Inclusion Inventory

Abstract While several studies have investigated the effects of inclusive education on children receiving special education services, less effort has been directed toward assessing implementation of inclusive educational practices. This article describes development of the Inclusion Inventory, a 90-item tool designed to survey educators' perceptions of inclusive educational practices in their school. Administration of the Inventory to 2,763 respondents from 72 schools across a large southwestern state yielded internal consistency reliability coefficients of .72 and above for the seven subscales. Respondents with experience in inclusive educational practices and those from schools where teams implement inclusive education tended to have higher ratings on the Inclusion Inventory. Implications are considered for educators and others involved in inclusive education.

Effects of Inclusive Education and Strategies of Conflict Resolution on Perceived School Behavior and Personal Self-Concept

Three teams of 7th grade English teachers and students were assigned to 3 placements of inclusive education, conflict resolution, and regular curriculum. The inclusive education group ( n = 27) scored significantly higher than the regular curriculum group ( n = 23) on measures of both perceived school behavior and personal self-concept. Statistically significant teacher-student intercorrelations on both measures were observed in the regular curriculum group.