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From Access To Interaction, Daniel Atkins
From Access To Interaction, Daniel Atkins
Occasional Paper Series
Atkins calls on educators to see beyond access to identify “core moments” for child-centered experiential learning in inclusion classrooms. He warns that “[t]he process of scaffolding the child’s inclusion in the activities or interactions of the day can too often become conflated or confused with the process of scaffolding the child’s physical ability to gain access to those activities or interactions.”
Overcoming Barriers To Coteaching, Seamus O'Connor
Overcoming Barriers To Coteaching, Seamus O'Connor
Occasional Paper Series
Seamus O’Connor, a high school special education teacher, shares a story of bridging a divide. He takes a clear and honest look at the evolution of his relationship with his coteaching partner, Carol. In doing so, he explores themes of equity, trust, and negotiated differences in building a collaborative classroom.
Doing The Civil Right Thing: Supporting Children With Disabilities In Inclusive Classrooms, David J. Connor, Kristen Goldmansour
Doing The Civil Right Thing: Supporting Children With Disabilities In Inclusive Classrooms, David J. Connor, Kristen Goldmansour
Occasional Paper Series
David J. Connor and Kristen Goldmansour explore cotaught inclusion classrooms through the lens of the social justice narrative. They write about the parents who asserted “that it was their children’s civil right to be educated within a diverse classroom, one that truly mirrored the nation’s population.” They critique the alternative to inclusion as “segregation,” which results in “devaluation, a loss in cultural capital for individuals” and argue that cotaught classrooms can upend “artificial notions of ‘normalcy’ that have served to diminish and devalue ‘disabled’ children.”
Inclusion: What Came Before, Judith Lesch
Inclusion: What Came Before, Judith Lesch
Occasional Paper Series
Judith Lesch’s firsthand account of her teaching experiences from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s takes us on a journey through the evolving approaches to inclusion.
Front Matter And Introduction, Valentine Burr
Front Matter And Introduction, Valentine Burr
Occasional Paper Series
The writers in this issue of Occasional Papers advocate for models of inclusion that support children’s capabilities and challenge systemic inequities based on ableism and cultural biases. They examine the complex and changing nature of collaboration between general and special educators in inclusion settings. Underlying these essays, though not always explicitly stated, is recognition that the fields of special education and disability studies can deepen and inform each other.
A Mainstreaming Story: What The Labels Leave Out, Susan Goetz
A Mainstreaming Story: What The Labels Leave Out, Susan Goetz
Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education
Case study of a kindergarten child who defied the labels and evaluation reports and surprised his teachers and classmates.