Includes bibliographical references: p. [275]-299.

"Removing the Margins holds that education should be about producing knowledge for social action. Inclusivity goes beyond special education or special interests and is intrinsically tied to how schools respond to the needs and concerns of all students from diverse racial, ethnic, gender, sexual, class, religious, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds. All students are cheated when a dominant, rather than a diverse, learning environment is provided. By collapsing the artificial boundaries between schools, off-school sites, local communities and families, and by welcoming the spiritualities, languages, indigenous knowledge that students bring with them, schools can be transformed from sources of oppression into sites for social transformation.

Removing the Margins is the product of five years of research and writing in the search for best practices in inclusive education. The authors address the philosophical and theoretical bases for inclusivity in this book, while laying out a practical approach in the accompanying volume Inclusive Education: A Guide for Teacher Development. " (Book Cover)

CONTENTS:

Preface

Acknowledgements

About the authors

Chapter 1: Rethinking Inclusive Schooling: Theoretical and Philosophical Foundations

Chapter 2: Research and Method: Exemplary Practices of Inclusive Schooling

Chapter 3: Schooling and Education in North America: Recentering Indigenous Knowledges

Chapter 4: Spirituality in Education: A Critical Perspective

Chapter 5: Language Integration: Framing Issues of Language in Schooling

Chapter 6: Achieving Success through Inclusive Education:Fulfilling the Needs of all Students

Chapter 7: Representation in Education: Centering Silenced Voices, Bodies and Knowledges

Chapter 8: Integrative and Inclusive Approaches: Community Schooling

Chapter 9: Conclusion - Making Connections to Public Schooling: Multicentric Education

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