Inclusion and Diversity in Education

Being of a nervous disposition as a child, Gary Thomas failed to write anything on his 11-plus examination paper, which inaction took him to secondary modern school. He eventually became a teacher, then an educational psychologist, then a professor of education at the University of Birmingham, where his teaching, research and writing have focused on inclusive education and the methods used in social science research. He has led a wide range of research projects and has received research funding from the AHRC, the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Department for Education, charities such as Barnardo’s and the Cadmean Trust, local authorities and a range of other organisations. He has written or edited 30 books, lots of boring academic articles, and quite interesting essays on the state of education in the national press. He was the editor of journals such as the British Educational Research Journal and Educational Review.He has two grown-up daughters, one daughter at school, and two grandchildren. He likes, in alphabetical order, birds, chess, cycling, dogs, his family, gardening, reading and writing.Despite supporting Aston Villa football club, he maintains an optimistic outlook on life.

• VOLUME 1The Concept of Oppression and the Development of a Social Theory of Disability - P. AbberleySynthesis of Research on Compensatory and Remedial Education - L. W. Anderson and L. O. PellicerThe Repetition of Exclusion - J. AllanInclusion as Social Justice: Critical notes on discourses, assumptions, and the road ahead - A.J. Artiles, N. Harris-Murri and D. RostenbergThe Historical Development of Special Education: Humanitarian rationality or ′wild profusion of entangled events′? - F. ArmstrongEducation Markets, Choice and Social Class: The market as a class strategy in the UK and the USA - S. J. BallCompetition, Selection and Inclusive Education: Some observations - L. Barton and R. SleeNormalisation, Needs and Schools - S. CarsonRoutes to Inclusion - P. Clough Pseudo-science and Dividing Practices: A genealogy of the first educational provision for pupils with learning difficulties - I. CopelandSpecial Education for the Mildly Retarded - is much of it Justifiable? - L.M. DunnReframing Justice in a Globalizing World - N. Fraser Reviewing the Literature on Integration - S. HegartyThe Process of Reconstruction: An overview - G. LeydenThe Acquisition of a Child by a Learning Disability - R.P. McDermottChanging the Way We Think About Kids with Disabilities: A conversation with Tom Hehir - E. MillerDisability, Education and the Discourses of Justice - F. Rizvi and B. LingardDriven to the Margins: Disabled students, inclusive schooling and the politics of possibility - R. SleeWitnessing Brown: Pursuit of an equity agenda in American education - A. Smith and E. B. KozleskiInclusive Education: The ideals and the practice - G. Thomas, D. Walker and J. WebbWhy a Sociology of Special Education - S. TomlinsonBrown vs. Board of Education - E. WarrenVOLUME 2Developing Inclusive Education Systems: What are the levers for change? - M. AinscowInclusion and the Standards Agenda: Negotiating policy pressures in England - M. Ainscow, T. Booth and A. Dyson The Politics of Official Knowledge: Does a national curriculum make sense? - M. AppleReinventing ′Inclusion′: New Labour and the cultural politics of special education - D. ArmstrongLearning in Inclusive Education Research: Re-mediating theory and methods with a transformative agenda. - A.J. Artiles, E. Kozleski, S. Dorn and C. ChristensenInclusion in Action: An in-depth case study of an effective inclusive secondary school in the south-west of England - E. Avramidis, P. Bayliss and R. BurdenGetting Started - D. BiklenThe Development of Young Children′s Ethnic Identities: Implications for early years practice - P. ConnollyA Critical Examination of Special Education Programs - F. Christoplos and P. RenzGender and Learning: Equity, equality and pedagogy - H. Daniels and A. CreeseMaking the Ordinary School Special - T. DessentThe Puzzle of Inclusion: A case study of autistic students in the life of one high school - P. M. FergusonPersistent Absence from School and Exclusion from School: The predictive power of school and community variables - D. Galloway, R. Martin and B. WilcoxEducation Policy as an act of White Supremacy: Whiteness, critical race theory and education reform - D. GillbornDeviance and Education - D.H. Hargreaves, S.K. Hestor, and F.J. MellorEffective Inclusive Schools: A study in two countries - M. Rouse and I. FlorianMet Cognition and Passing: strategic interactions in the lives of students with learning disabilities - R. Rueda and H. MehanLearning Disabilities as Sociologic Sponge - G. M. SenfThe Special Education Paradox: Equity as the way to excellence - T. M. SkrticExcluding the Included: A reconsideration of inclusive education - R. Slee and J. AllanThe Place and The People - G. Thomas, D. Walker and J. WebbStreet Level Bureaucrats and Institutional Innovation: Implementing special education reform - R.A. Weatherley and M. LipskyQuality and Inequality in Children′s Literacy: The effects of families, schools and communities - J. D. WillmsVOLUME 3Making Sense of the Development of Inclusive Practices - M. Ainscow, A.J. Howes, P. Farrell and J. FrankhamFoucault and Special Educational Needs: A ′box of tools′ for analysing children′s experiences of mainstreaming - J. AllanDifferential Diagnosis - Prescriptive Teaching: A critical appraisal - J.A. Arter and J.R. JenkinsInclusion Power and Community: Teachers and students interpret the language of community in an inclusion classroom - R. BerryEmbracing the Faith, Including the Community? - T. BoothPsychological Theory and the Study of Learning Disabilities - A.L. Brown and J.C. CampioneThe Learning Disabilities Test Battery: Empirical and social issues - G. ColesTeaching Approaches which Support Inclusive Education: A connective pedagogy - J. CorbettThe Silenced Dialogue: Power and pedagogy in educating other people′s children - L.D. DelpitMaking Space in the Standards Agenda: Developing inclusive practices in schools - A. Dyson, F. Gallannaugh and A. MillwardThe scientific Knowledge Base of Special Education: Do we know what we think we know? - D.J. GallagherExtending Inclusive Opportunities - M.F. GiangrecoIntroducing Innovative Thinking - S. HartTo Summarise - J. HoltSkills Management Systems: A critique - D.D. Johnson and P.D. PearsonHow Specialized is Teaching Children with Disabilities and Difficulties? - B. Norwich and A. LewisA ′Turbulent′ City: Mobility and social inclusion - P. PottsThe High/Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison Study through Age 23 - L.J. Schweinhart and D.P. WeikartPedagogy and Dialogue - D. SkidmoreRace and Special Education - S. TomlinsonIn Search of Inclusive Pedagogies: The role of experience and symbolic representation in cognition - T. WrigleyVOLUME 4Encounters with Exclusion through Disability Arts - J. AllanSpecial Education′s Changing Identity: Paradoxes and dilemmas in views of culture and space - A.J. ArtilesResearch and Practice: The need for alternative perspectives - L. Barton′SEN′, Inclusion and the Elision of ′Failure′ - S. BenjaminEffects of Resources, Inequality, and Privilege Bias on Achievement: Country, school, and student level analyses - M.M. Chiu and L. KhooProblems of Identity and Method in the Investigation of Special Educational Needs - P. CloughHow the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System - B. CoardThe Masculine Habitus as ′Distributed Cognition′: A case study of 5- to 6 year old boys in an English inner-city, multi-ethnic primary school - P. ConnollyMaintaining Underclasses via Contrastive Judgement: Can inclusive education ever happen? - H. Cremin and G. ThomasBeyond Special Education: Towards a quality system for all students - A. Gartner and D. LipskySupporting the Development of More Inclusive Practices Using the Index for Inclusion - P. HickIntegration, Italian style - M. JohnsonSpecial Education for the Mentally Handicapped - A Paradox - O.G. Johnson′And When Did You Last See Your Father?′ Exploring the views of children with learning difficulties/disabilities - A. LewisThe Cultural Work of Learning Disabilities - R. McDermott, S. Goldman and H. VarenneThe Professional-lay Relationship: A Victorian legacy - E. MidwinterDoes Special Education have a Role to Play in the Twenty-first Century? - M. OliverThe Discursive Practice of Learning Disability: Implications for instruction and parent-school relations - K. Reid and J. ValleThinking about Inclusion: Whose reason? What evidence? - G. Thomas and G. GlennyThe Expansion of Special Education - S. Tomlinson

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