Educating All

This book contributes significantly to the conversation about inclusion as a critical component of school culture. Educating All recounts Christopher McMaster's experience as a critical ethnographer in a school community, given the task of not only studying the institution's culture, but of creating change as well.

Autorentext

Christopher McMaster completed a PhD in education based on a critical ethnography of developing inclusive culture in an Aotearoa/New Zealand high school. He has lived and taught in several countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and New Zealand, as a regular and special educator as well as an advisor to schools.

Inhalt

Contents: Special and Inclusive? A Model of Special Education - What is in a Word? Exploring Inclusion - The Utopian Roots behind Inclusion - Neoliberalism in New Zealand Education - A Fish in Water and a Peasant at a Dance: The Importance of Culture - The Index for Inclusion - Our School: A Place for Every Learner - «All It Needs is a Plan»: The Index in Use - «Where Is [___]?»: Re-examining Values and How They Are Applied in Practice - «That's Easy - Just Do It»: Experiencing Inclusion - Thinking through Inclusion: A School Leader's Perspective - Inclusion One School at a Time?