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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.
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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
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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.
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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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Out of stockThe 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.
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Out of stockThis 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.
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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
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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.