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This factsheet describes the successful battle fought by parents of five year old Kirsty Arondelle who has Down's syndrome, to have her educated in an ordinary infant school. -
This report by Ann Shearer is of an early CSIE/ACE day conference at the Institute of Education, London and deals with strategies for integration as well as opportunities and ways forward for parents. -
A fully illustrated report of the first integrated adventure week at a field studies centre in Cornwall. Pupils from special and comprehensive schools in London combine forces for a unique week's adventure holiday. Report includes interviews with all pupils. -
A report of the CSIE day conference where the strongest call was for special education to be made part of the mainstream system. Speakers called for a new perspective on special education and gave examples of how children previously excluded from ordinary schools, were included. Includes a section on Kirsty Arrondelle’s education. ISBN: 0 946828 10 5 -
14 year old students in this part of America have more legal rights than any parent in the UK; this report sets out the federal and state legal framework supporting inclusion of disabled pupils in ordinary schools and describes good practice as well as union and LEA views. ISBN: 0 946828 09 1 -
These three integration examples have been written in an easily readable style designed to give basic facts as well as the atmosphere of each school. They are: Northumberland Park Comprehensive School which integrates students with physical disabilities; the all age inclusion of blind pupils at primary and comprehensive schools in Wolverhampton; and the pioneering Charnwood integrated nursery in Stockport, Cheshire. ISBN: 0 946828 11 3 -
What LEAs told and did not tell parents under the 1981 Education Act. This report features the results of CSIE's national survey of LEA material given to parents to help them through assessments and statementing. ISBN: 0 946828 12 1 -
This is the report of CSIE's survey of LEA material given to professionals on how they should have operated the 1981 Education Act. In many parts of the country the LEA guidance was shown to be seriously inadequate. ISBN: 0 946828 14 8 -
This illustrated report tells the story up to 1987 of Kirsty Arrondelle who has been successfully educated in mainstream schools. Kirsty has Down's syndrome and her education is a tribute to the partnership between her parents, the LEAs and the primary school headteachers and teachers involved in her placements. ISBN: 0 946828 13 X -
This is a report of CSIE's survey of LEA reviews of special education under the 1981 Act and reveals a wide variation of practice across the country, as well as illustrating different frustrations and tasks facing authorities. ISBN: 1 872001 47 5 -
There are no special schools in the two parts of Canada described in this report by Linda Shaw, Co-Director, CSIE. All children are in the mainstream with support. This illustrated report describes the local policy and practice, and challenges all of us to reconsider whether it is necessary to limit inclusive education. ISBN: 1 872001 01 7 -
All staff, pupils and resources of Bishopswood Special School for children with severe learning difficulties in Oxfordshire have now transferred successfully to local mainstream schools. This report explains why and how the change came about and is a useful model for others. ISBN: 1 872001 04 01 -
Compiled by Linda Shaw, Co-Director, CSIE, these two audio tapes present a positive approach to training for inclusive education in ordinary schools and offer a tour of six schools presented in radio-documentary style, with a guide book and work cards. The pack gives first-hand accounts of inclusion based on experiences in schools. The 'slices of life' feature real-life examples of strategies, services and support for responding to diverse difficulties in learning. -
Special schools claim to offer appropriate educational experiences, yet this analysis shows that nearly 70 per cent failed to enter any students at all for GCSE in 1996. The report, by Prof. Gary Thomas, then at University of the West of England, lists every special school in England, the number of students in year 11 and the percentage of GCSE passes. ISBN: 1 872001 52 1 -
This report by Alison Wertheimer reflects the growing international movement calling for inclusive schools which welcome all children. Inclusion, it says, is an issue of basic human rights, and not primarily an educational or professional issue. It calls for change in the UK law to end current discrimination against disabled pupils. -
A very different response to the national trend for increasing disciplinary exclusions is presented in this report by Giles Barrow which describes an inclusive approach to disaffection and disruption in the London borough of Merton. RRP: £7.00 ISBN: 1 872001 57 2 -
This report by Linda Shaw, Co-Director CSIE, focuses on the work of learning supporters and additional adults in the mainstream classroom and covers roles, rewards, concerns and challenges from their perspective. It also sets an agenda for discussion and development. RRP: £5.00 ISBN: 1 872001 87 4 -
This report by Dr Sharon Rustemier puts forward the substantial and persuasive international human rights principles supporting inclusive education. It reveals a catalogue of uncomfortable facts about segregated education in the UK and challenges traditional assumptions sustaining segregation. RRP: £8.00 ISBN: 1 872001 15 7 -
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The Index for Inclusion, written by Tony Booth and Mel Ainscow, is a major publication from CSIE to help guide schools through a process of inclusive school development. It encourages the widest scrutiny of school life and involves a self-review of a school's cultures, policies and practices. Through a deep exploration, barriers to learning and participation are identified, priorities for development are determined and plans are put into practice to help build supportive communities which foster high achievement for all students. -
This is an account of the successful development and growth of the inclusive education service in the London Borough of Newham over 1984-2002. The authors, Linda Jordan and Chris Goodey, were among leading figures in the change towards inclusion. RRP: £10.00 ISBN: 1 872001 25 4 -
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This statistical report gives up-to-date league tables of all the highest and lowest segregating LEAs across England in 2001. Written for CSIE from Government data by Prof Brahm Norwich, University of Exeter. -
This is the story of the continuing education and life of Kirsty Arrondelle, a young woman who enjoys membership of many groups in her local community, both within and outside of formal education. She also has Down's syndrome. This report, by Dr Sharon Rustemier, documents Kirsty's social and educational inclusion in adult life and links this with her parents' struggle to secure mainstream education for their daughter. RRP: £10.00 ISBN: 1 872001 38 6 -
A look at the evidence and the reasons why, whatever the degree of interaction with mainstream schools, special schools are necessarily segregating institutions. Dr Sharon Rustemier's report draws on the substantial bodies of educational and social psychological evidence to illustrate the damage of this segregation and its links with stigma, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination.
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