100% online Issues in Inclusive Education

This module offers insights into many different aspects of inclusive education.

Inclusive education has been positioned and promoted as a positive reaction to segregated schooling, inequality and prejudice. Inclusion, more generally, has permeated policy and social discourse in the last few decades as a concept and practice that attempts to include everyone into the local community. For example, community work rather than imprisonment, community housing rather than mental health institutions and mainstream education that is promoted for all pupils including those with a range of difficult learning needs. In the face of this, politicians and policy makers emphasise their commitment to issues of inclusion and social justice and, in the process, the meanings, policy and practice of inclusive education have been rethought – nowhere more so than in relation to special educational needs.