BSc Education / Course details

• The language, history and discourses of inclusion internationally
• National policy approaches to inclusion
• Inclusion and successful whole school approaches to diversity
• Parental involvement in successful learning
• The role of advocacy and consumer groups in promoting inclusive education

• Introduce students to the current issues discourses and policies that surround inclusive education
• Familiarize students with strategies to support the learning of students with varied abilities and from diverse backgrounds
• Study frameworks for responding to inclusive education, including SEN issues

Knowledge and understanding

• analyse and discuss the social and legislative aspects of the area of inclusion and its general implications for whole school approaches
• reflect on the discourses of disability and their impact on understandings of inclusive practice
• study a range of educational settings, including early years, primary, secondary, higher education and lifelong learning
• examine the theoretical and practical issues of the role of parents and carers in the provision of inclusive education

Intellectual skills

• develop an ability to critically evaluate issues and developments in inclusive education

Practical skills

• demonstrate an ability to construct a clear argument
• construct an effective presentation

Transferable skills ans transferable qualities

• assemble evidence from a range of sources to support an argument.

A seminar approach is adopted throughout, with a combination of lectures, group discussions and individual learning.

Detailed lists of reading on specific issues will be provided each week.  The following is a list of some key publications.

Ainscow, M. (2016) Struggles for equity in education: The selected works of Mel Ainscow. London: Routledge (World Library of Educationalists series)

Benjamin, S. (2002) The Micropolitics of Inclusive Education, OUP.

Carpenter, B., Ashdown, R. and Bovair, K. (1996) Enabling Access, David Fulton.

Clark, C., Dyson, A. and Milward, A. (1995) Towards Inclusive Education, David Fulton.

Cole, B. (2004) Mother-Teachers: Insights into Inclusion, David Fulton.

Corbett, J. (2001) Supporting Inclusive Education. A Connective Pedagogy, Routledge-Falmer.

Greenstein, A. (2015) Radical Inclusive Education. Disability, teaching and struggles for liberation. London: Routledge

Mittler, P. (2000) Working towards Inclusive Education, David Fulton.

Nutbrown, C. and Clough, P. (2006) Inclusion in the Early Years, Sage.

Oliver, M. (1990) The politics of disablement. London: Macmillan. Shakespeare, T. (2006) Disability Rights and Wrongs. London: Routledge.  Terzi, L. (ed) (2010) Special Educational Needs: A new look. Mary Warnock and Brahm Norwich. 2nd edition. London: Continuum, Shakespeare, T. (2014) Disability rights and wrongs revisited. London: Routledge