Action research : developing inclusive practice and transforming cultures / Felicity Armstrong and Michele Moore -- Disability and empowerment : personal integrity in further education research / Val Thompson -- From confusion to collaboration : can special schools contribute to developing inclusive practices in mainstream schools? / Pauline Zelaieta -- Forging and strengthening alliances : learning support staff and the challenge of inclusion / Catherine Sorsby -- Students who challenge : reducing barriers to inclusion / Linda Simpson -- "We like to talk and we like someone to listen" : cultural difference and minority voices as agents of change / Mary Clifton -- Ordinary teachers, ordinary struggles : including children with social and communication difficulties in everyday classroom life / Kathy Charles -- "What about me? I live here too!" : raising voices and changing minds through participatory research / Judith Gwynn -- Out of the closet, into the classroom : gay students, teachers, and research action / Colin J. Slater -- Challenging behaviour : ours, not theirs / Karen Dunn.
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This book presents and discusses an approach to action research to help reverse discriminatory and exclusionary practices in education. Insider accounts of action research will help challenge assumptions about the limits of inclusive education, and offer examples of how change can be realistically achieved through processes of collaboration and participation. Written by a team of practitioner researchers drawn from a wide range of schools and services, this book addresses a wide range of real-life situations by exploring ways in which teachers have tackled inequalities in the school environment.