Webster, Robert;
(2022)
The Inclusion Illusion: How children with special educational needs experience mainstream schools.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Inclusion conjures images of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) learning in classes alongside peers in a mainstream school. For pupils in the UK with high-level SEND, who have an Education, Health and Care Plan (formerly a Statement), this implies an everyday educational experience similar to that of their typically-developing classmates. Yet in vital respects, they are worlds apart. Based on the UK’s largest observation study of pupils with high-level SEND, The Inclusion Illusion exposes how attendance at a mainstream school is no guarantee of receiving a mainstream education. Observations of nearly 1,500 lessons in English schools show that their everyday experience of school is characterised by separation and segregation. Furthermore, interviews with nearly 500 pupils, parents and school staff reveal the effect of this marginalisation on the quality of their education. The way schools are organised and how classrooms are composed creates a form of ‘structural exclusion’ that preserves mainstream education for typically-developing pupils and justifies a diluted pedagogical offer for pupils with high-level SEND. Policymakers, not mainstream schools, are indicted over this state of affairs. This book prompts questions about what we think inclusion is and what it looks like. Ultimately, it suggests why a more authentic form of inclusion is needed, and how it might be achieved.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Inclusion Illusion: How children with special educational needs experience mainstream schools |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-78735-699-3 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787357099 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787356993 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author 2022 This book contains third-party copyright material that is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Nonderivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ . This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. If you wish to use the work commercially, use extracts or undertake translation you must seek permission from the author. Attribution should include the following information: Webster, R. 2022. The Inclusion Illusion: How children with special educational needs experience mainstream schools. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787357099 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | SEND, special educational needs & disability, inclusion, teaching assistants, schools, classrooms |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149823 |
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