Teacher Education for Inclusion (eBook, ePUB)

Changing Paradigms and Innovative Approaches
Redaktion: Forlin, Chris

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The focus of this international text is on innovative practices for preparing teachers to work in inclusive classrooms and schools around the world. Drawing on both pre and inservice training methods, the expert contributors to this book consider themes including social and political challenges regarding teacher education; innovative approaches to teacher training and professional development for qualified teachers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136965401
• Artikelnr.: 42977024

Autorenporträt

Chris Forlin is Professor of Special and Inclusive Education at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. She has also edited Reform, Inclusion and Teacher Education: Towards a New Era of Special Education in the Asia-Pacific region (Routledge, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Social and political challenges in teacher education for inclusion
1. Re-framing teacher education for inclusion 2. Political economy,
inclusive education and teacher education 3. Training tension in an
international and intercultural context 4. A national strategy for
supporting teacher educators to prepare teachers for inclusion
Part 2: Innovative approaches for initial teacher preparation 5. Reforming
initial teacher education: a necessary but not sufficient condition for
developing inclusive practice 6. A content-infused approach to preservice
teacher preparation for inclusive education 7. Inclusive professional
learning schools 8. Initial teacher education and inclusion: a triad of
inclusive experiences 9. Fostering empathy and understanding: a
longitudinal case study pedagogy 10. Preparing teachers to work with
parents and families of learners with SEN in inclusive schools 11. Using
reflective practices for preparation of preservice teacher for inclusive
classrooms 12. Preparing preservice teachers for effective co-teaching in
inclusive classrooms 13. Teacher education online: towards inclusive
virtual learning communities 14. Evaluating inclusive teacher education
programs: a flexible framework
Part 3: Professional learning for practising teachers 15. Modelling and
guiding inclusive practices: a challenge for postgraduate educators 16.
Humanizing online learning: ways of engaging teachers in contemporary
understandings and practices 17. Attending to diversity: a professional
learning program in Mexico 18. Engaging teachers in supporting positive
student behavior change 19. Professional learning as collaborative inquiry:
working together for impact 20. A four-ply model of professional
development for inclusive education 21. Including students with special
educational needs in professional learning for teachers 22. Initial teacher
training to meet the needs of students with disabilities who are culturally
and linguistically diverse 23. Cooperative action research for inclusive
education and professional learning in a "Learning in Regular Classrooms"
school 24. A model professional learning program for enhancing the
competency of students with special needs 25. Upskilling all mainstream
teachers: What is viable? 26. Future direction for teacher education for
inclusion