Simon Muir

Inclusive Learning Personal and Professional

Reflections

Inclusive LearningPersonal and Professional Reflections

Simon MuirDiving Belle, Scarborough

Equality

‘Virtually Meaningless’ ( Kaufmann, 1999, p ?)

‘Virtually Meaningless’ (Kaufman, 1999)

‘Jetlag’ (Slee, 2004)

‘Pedagogy needs humanity’ (Rogers, 2012, p 476))

Salamanca Statement

Index for Inclusion

Education For All

Tomlinson Report

Special Educational Needs and Disability Act

Warnock Report

Disability Discrimination Act / Equality Act

Dyson Review

Various Education Acts since 1944

BELONGINGNESS

‘Feeling at home’ (May 2011, p 369)

‘Ontological Security’ (Giddens 1991, p 11)

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‘If we don’t belong or sense belongingness we lack connectedness’ (Putnam, 2000)

‘If we don’t belong, or sense belongingness, we lack connectedness’

(Putnam, 2000)

Social Capital

What about Teaching and Learning?

Transformation and Identity (Hughes, 2010)

Openness, encouraging experiences, valuing difference, mutual self reflection (Castelloe and Watson, 1999)

‘Dialogic teaching’ (Alexander, 2008, p 9)

‘Critical consciousness’ (Friere, 2005, p 5)

Community, connection, solidarity, belief (Moran, 2007)

Inclusion?

And Finally......We definitely need some courage....

BrainHeart

• The opposite of courage in our society is

not The opposite of courage in our society is not

cowardice, it is conformity

Rollo May (1983, p 19 )

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• Giddens, A (1991) Modernity and Self Identity, Self, Identity in the Late Modern Age, California: Stanford University Press

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• Smart, C (2007) Personal Life , London: Wiley • Wenger, E. (2000) ‘Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems’ Organization: 7(2): pp: 225 –

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References continued...• Pictures• Michael Gove, You Ask The Questions [Online].

Available at: http://www.independent.co.uk/migration_catalog/article5160885.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/michael-gove-PA.jpeg&imgrefurl=http [Accessed 4th Feb 2013]

• The Wizard of Oz (1939) – Photos [Online]. Available at: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/the-wizard-of-oz/photos/the-wizard-of-oz-stills-slideshow-1800019695/wizard-oz-stills-33388.html [Accessed 7th Feb 2013]

• Other images / photographs by Simon Muir ©