- Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: Beacon Press; 1 edition (Mar 15 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0807032808
- ISBN-13: 978-0807032800
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 1.5 x 21.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 295 g
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#310,358 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9 in Books > Professional & Technical > Education > Special Education > Mainstreaming
- #9 in Books > Nonfiction > Education > Special Education > Mainstreaming
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From Publishers Weekly
Designing inclusive education, Sapon-Shevin (Because We Can Change the World) suggests, is like planning a dinner party for a varied group of friends—lactose-intolerant, Muslims, vegans, etc. We could serve our usual dishes and force our guests to pick around... or we could plan the menu beforehand so everyone's happy. Similarly, education must be designed, from the outset, for universal accessibility. Then, rather than try to ignore difference, she argues, teachers should embrace it so children realize we are all different in different ways. Whatever our particular issue—whether we have Down's syndrome or cerebral palsy or autism or gifted intelligences—if we work together in an inclusively designed classroom we learn from one another, which promotes respect among children and social justice in our nation. When the "gifted" and the "special ed" kids are teaching one another in the same inclusive classroom, not only may those labels disappear, not only may school performance rise overall, but teachers won't have to hear that plaintive cry from the special-ed kids, "Can I be in the play those kids are doing?" While Sapon-Shevin is earnest, her platform may seem delusional to a public school teacher with over 30 children in an overcrowded classroom. (Mar.)
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From Booklist
Sapon-Shevin, a professor of education, argues that education models based on inclusiveness benefit children while they are in school and after they graduate and go on with their lives as adults in a democratic nation. Taking the notion of inclusiveness to heart, she does not divide the book into separate chapters on children with differences of whatever nature--economic, physical or cognitive ability, racial or ethnic. Instead, she begins by addressing the objections generally raised against inclusion, which is mostly focused on including children with physical and mental disabilities in regular classrooms. Sapon-Shevin explores underlying concerns about inclusion and beliefs about the benefits of inclusion in a democracy. In later chapters, she offers examples and strategies of inclusive classrooms and teaching methods that promote educational excellence for all children. By offering examples and vignettes, Sapon-Shevin makes her passionate arguments more accessible to readers outside the education profession. An insightful look at inclusion in education. Vanessa Bush
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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a book teachers have been waiting for, April 2 2007
By Paula Kluth - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Widening the Circle: The Power of Inclusive Classrooms (Paperback)
I read this book in one sitting and have since recommended it to dozens of families and colleagues. It is a book we have waited for-- one that sees diversity as something bigger than disability or race or ethnicity. This author describes difference as something that every child brings to the classroom and as something we can embrace and use in our teaching, in our curriculum, and to build our school communities.This author understands inclusive school as something beyond a space where all students are educated together. In this book, she helps us, as teachers, see inclusion as something we DO (vs. someplace we go)and as a catalyst for our own professional growth.
In addition, the book is well written, engaging, and filled with rich and memorable stories. Sapon-Shevin provides not only the inspiration to teach to the differences around us but the tools as well.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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impassioned, funny and full of stories, Aug 26 2007
By Nancy Schimmel - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Widening the Circle: The Power of Inclusive Classrooms (Paperback)
I read this book because I'd met the author at a Children's Music Network event. The book sounds like Mara: impassioned, funny, and full of stories. What she is impassioned about here is including students of all abilities in a regular classroom, and teaching so that everybody learns what they can. It's not only good for the physically- or learning-challenged students, it's good for everybody. We all have different learning styles, so we can profit from a variety of teaching methods, and we all live in a world where we deal with people with different abilities. I see a lot of classrooms in my vocation as a storyteller and songwriter, but I didn't know a whole lot about education of children with disabilities, so I passed the book on to a friend who raised three kids with polio. She essentially agreed with Mara's thesis, that children given the help they need to survive in a regular classroom do better in life than children who are separated out.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Benefits for All from Inclusive Classrooms, Sep 17 2007
By Nancy Schniedewind - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Widening the Circle: The Power of Inclusive Classrooms (Paperback)
Widening the Circle is a book that speaks to all of us and asks us to think about what kind of education is necessary to preserve a democratic society. Offering an inclusive definition of inclusion- encompassing race, gender, class, sexual orientation, as well as ability- Sapon-Shevin describes the multiple benefits of including all children in the mainstream of education. These include learning to live together in community, embracing difference and learning from the many different ways of being smart. Her conceptual principles and personal accounts together show how,without sacrificing anyone's educational success,truly inclusive classrooms can both enable all children to achieve academically and to develop the experiences and values for maintaining a democracy. This book is very accessible and useful for teachers, administrators, parents and general readers alike.
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