Rob Webster

The Inclusion Illusion (eBook, ePUB)

How children with special educational needs experience mainstream schools

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Inclusion conjures images of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) learning in classes alongside peers in a mainstream school. For pupils in the UK with high-level SEND, who have an Education, Health and Care Plan (formerly a Statement), this implies an everyday educational experience similar to that of their typically-developing classmates. Yet in vital respects, they are worlds apart.

Based on the UK's largest observation study of pupils with high-level SEND, The Inclusion Illusion exposes how attendance at a mainstream school is no guarantee of receiving a mainstream education. Observations of nearly 1,500 lessons in English schools show that their everyday experience of school is characterised by separation and segregation. Furthermore, interviews with nearly 500 pupils, parents and school staff reveal the effect of this marginalisation on the quality of their education. The way schools are organised and how classrooms are composed creates a form of 'structural exclusion' that preserves mainstream education for typically-developing pupils and justifies a diluted pedagogical offer for pupils with high-level SEND. Policymakers, not mainstream schools, are indicted over this state of affairs. This book prompts questions about what we think inclusion is and what it looks like. Ultimately, it suggests why a more authentic form of inclusion is needed, and how it might be achieved.

Praise for The Inclusion Illusion

'This timely book presents clear challenges to the limits placed on progress for children with SEND in mainstream schools. It stands alongside calls, back to Warnock's vision of every teacher being a teacher of SEN, for an end to "exclusion within inclusion". It urges us to develop all staff to fulfil their roles with pupils with SEND. Acknowledging the value of TAs, it urges schools to ensure children who most need a teacher, get the teacher. Based on rigorous research, it rightly calls for bravery. For honesty. For action.'
Professor Maggie Atkinson, Safeguarding consultant, adviser and leader, and Children's Commissioner for England (2009-2015)

'This is an important and valuable book which ... has the potential to improve the educational experiences of pupils with significant learning and related difficulties. It combines an insightful account of the many issues and difficulties surrounding inclusion with a rigorous analysis of the outcomes and implications of large scale empirical work.'
Professor Paul Croll, University of Reading

'I love this book! It tackles the structural challenges of inclusion head on and sets out what must change to create a fairer future for children with SEND. This is essential reading for all evidence-led school leaders, teachers and policymakers who believe in better.'
Margaret Mulholland, SEND and Inclusion Policy Specialist, Association of School and College Leaders

'Rob Webster has deepened our understanding of how mainstream schools fail to address the needs of children with SEND. Distilling the crucial insights from years of work, he has thrown down a challenge to policymakers that for many children with SEND, simply having a mainstream placement is not the same as inclusion. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in what needs to change to ensure better futures for children with SEND in mainstream schools.'
Brian Lamb OBE, Visiting Professor of Special Educational Needs and Disability, Derby University

'This valuable and timely book will bring insight and ignite productive conversations among educators, teacher educators, disability advocates, and educational policymakers regarding the true meaning of inclusion and what it would take for schools to make inclusive education a reality'
Teachers College Record

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: UCL Press
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787357020
• Artikelnr.: 66010027

Autorenporträt

Rob Webster is a Reader in Education and the Director of the Education Research, Innovation and Consultancy Unit at the University of Portsmouth. He joined UCL Institute of Education in 2005 as a researcher on the ground-breaking Deployment and Impact of Support Staff project. Between 2011 and 2017, he co-directed the UK's largest longitudinal cohort study of the everyday educational experiences of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities, on which this book is based. He developed and led the award-winning Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants programme, which has been accessed by thousands of UK schools.