Understanding the Development of Inclusive Schools

This book compares and contrasts special needs approaches with school effectiveness strategies and sets out theories about inclusive schooling that arise out of a detailed scrutiny of practice.
The emphasis on individualized intervention programmes for students with special needs may not only be impractical, but also undesirable. When approaches to special needs are brought into contrast with school effectiveness strategies, the different perspectives prove revealing and useful. With extensive examples from the field to illustrate the ideas, this text expounds the theories that arise out of a scrutiny of practice, and the links between thinking and practice.