The specially commissioned essays in this book address the complexity of contemporary schools and classrooms as well as our need as a Canadian society to challenge the beliefs and practices that under
The specially commissioned essays in this book address the complexity of contemporary schools and classrooms as well as our need as a Canadian society to challenge the beliefs and practices that underpin lack of full access to, and benefit from education. They acknowledge the important influences of social, cultural, linguistic, academic, behavioural, gender and sexuality differences on the lives of students and raise important questions about how this diversity is respected in educational policy and practice.
Taken as a whole the essays are no less than a critical assessment of the theory, practices and policies of inclusive education and the promise of new assessment and empirical approaches, including "best practice", to affect positive change in the education of exceptional children. Parents, politicians and educators at all levels will find a wealth of ideas in the essays and an informed advocacy that cannot be ignored.
ContentsIntroduction: Building a Better Future for Canadian Students
Judy L. Lupart and Marion Porath
Families, Policy, and Problems
The Challenges of Student Diversity in Canadian Schools
Judy L. Lupart
Supporting Families to Enhance Children’s Learning
Vianne Timmons
Inclusive Education for Students with Developmental and Other Disabilities: The General Situation and Implications for Advocacy and Policy Development
Cameron Crawford
Economics, Environment, and Politics of Diversity
The Politics of Diversity
Ben Levin
Raising and Levelling the Learning Bar in Canadian Schools
J. Douglas Willms
Guide to The British Columbia Atlas of Child Development
Clyde Hertzman, Paul Kershaw, Lori Irwin, and Kate Trafford
Diversity, Culture, and Power
Cognitive Assimilation, Culturalism, and Diversity: Evolving Educational Discourses for First Nations Students
Marie Battiste
From Literacy to Multiliteracies: Designing Learning Environments for Knowledge Generation in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Schools
Jim Cummins
Genders, Sexualities, and Schooling: Taking Difference into Account
Paula S. Cameron and Blye Frank
Peer Dynamics in Bullying: Considerations for Social Architecture in Schools
Debra Pepler and Wendy Craig
Diversity in Exceptional Learning Needs
Not Learning to Read: Diversity among Children with Reading Difficulties
John R. Kirby
Educating Gifted Children: Frameworks for Debate
Marion Porath
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Judy L. Lupart
is Canada Research Chair in Special Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta.
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