Research Agenda for Inclusive Education

Edited by Jacqueline Specht, Professor, Faculty of Education, Western University, Steve Sider, Professor, Faculty of Education, Wilfrid Laurier University and Kimberly Maich, Professor, Faculty of Education, Memorial University, Canada

• ContentsForeword xiii1 A Research Agenda for Inclusive Education: Setting theContext 1Jacqueline Specht, Steve Sider and Kimberly Maich2 Teaching in Inclusive Classrooms: Bridging Gaps fromTheory to Practice 11Umesh Sharma and Stuart Woodcock3 Escaping the Whirlpool: A Contextualized Research Agendafor Teacher Assistants in Inclusion-Oriented Schools 25Rob Webster and Michael F. Giangreco4 Transformative Leadership for Equitable and InclusiveEducation for All 41Carolyn Shields5 Collaborating for Inclusion: The Partnership BetweenSchools and Families 57Nicole Neil and Emily Villani6 Effective Inclusive Practices: What Students with DisabilityWish Teachers Knew about Them and How They Learn 75Haley Tancredi and Linda J. Graham7 People: A Consolidation 93Kimberly Maich, Steve Sider and Jacqueline Specht8 Spaces, Frameworks and Research for Change: EnablingProfound Reflective Practice in Schools to TransformPolicies and Practices to Enable Inclusion 99Amelia Roberts9 Researching Inclusive Education at the District Level: AComplex Array 115Jess Whitley10 Critical Components for Inclusive Education in SchoolDistricts 133Sheila Bennett and Tiffany L. Gallagher11 Promoting Inclusion and Equity in Education: Learning fromInternational Experiences 147Mel Ainscow12 Places: A Consolidation 165Steve Sider, Jacqueline Specht and Kimberly Maich13 Ending with the Start in Mind 169Steve Sider, Jacqueline Specht and Kimberly Maich

‘Top inclusion scholars from around the world provide a cogent and thorough portrait of progress toward the realizing of “everybody classrooms”—learning places where students with a great variety of strengths, interests, cultures, languages, and needs can come together to benefit from genuinely excellent learning opportunities.’