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Partnerships between Special and Mainstream Schools
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Avissar, Gilada – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2018
Mainstreaming and inclusion of students with special educational needs in regular education, challenge traditional concepts and common practices. Traditionally, special education has been a parallel yet separate educational system. Even though there is almost universal agreement on the goals of inclusion and mainstreaming, special education…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Mainstreaming, Special Education, Inclusion
The "Process" of Teacher Education for Inclusion: The Maltese Experience
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Bartolo, Paul A. – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2010
This paper discusses major challenges for the development of teacher education for inclusion through an analysis of relevant recent experience in Malta. Inclusion in society and in education has been explicitly on the Maltese national agenda for the past two decades. The Faculty of Education of the University of Malta has been one of the main…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Inclusive Schools
Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBD): The Special Educational Need Justifying Exclusion
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Jull, Stephen K. – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2008
Students identified with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) present a special case within special educational needs (SEN) and inclusion. EBD is perhaps the only category of SEN that exposes a child to increased risk of exclusion as a function of the very SEN identified as requiring special provision in the first instance. Students…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Sanctions, At Risk Students
"Teaching an Inclusive Classroom Can Be Rather Tedious": An International Perspective, Israel, 1998-2000
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Avissar, Gilada – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2003
Inclusion of students with disabilities into regular classrooms has been practised on a voluntary basis in Israel for the past 30-40 years. Special education legislation passed in 1988 included as one of its touchstones the mandate to mainstream students with disabilities into regular classrooms to the maximum extent possible. The "Plan for…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Foreign Countries, Special Education, Educational Legislation
Special and Mainstream School Collaboration for the Promotion of Inclusion.
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Rose, Richard – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2002
A study examined one English local education authority's approach for developing greater links between a special school and mainstream schools, with the intention of enabling pupils with complex needs to be supported in mainstream classrooms. Results from interviews with 25 teachers indicate the need for effective classroom support. (Contains…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Supporting the Inclusion of Pupils with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties in the Primary School: The Role of Teaching Assistants
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Groom, Barry; Rose, Richard – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2005
During the past ten years in the UK there has been a considerable increase in the number of teaching assistants (TAs) appointed to work alongside teachers in schools. A significant number of these colleagues are appointed to support pupils with special educational needs (SEN), including those with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Interpersonal Competence