There is much debate surrounding the subject of full inclusion of students with disabilities in regular classrooms. Is full inclusion of disabled students desirable? Like most controversial topics, this is not black and white; there are advantages and disadvantages associated with it. Also, like a lot of controversial topics, many people have opinions, such as teachers, parents, students, researchers, and others.
First, it is necessary to define what inclusion is. An inclusive school or classroom educates all students in the mainstream. This means that all students, including students with learning and physical disabilities, at-risk, homeless, and gifted are included in integrated, general education classes. It also means providing all students within the mainstream: 1.) appropriate educational experiences that are challenging yet geared to their capabilities and needs, and 2.) any support and assistance they or their teachers require. (Stainback, 1992) Inclusive education suggests the restructuring of special education to permit all or most students to be integrated in mainstream classrooms through reorganization and instructional innovations. It suggests the redesign of the traditional special education service delivery model to integrate students into regular education classrooms and to promote collaboration between educators in regular and special education. Since its evolution in the late 1980s, inclusive education has increasingly challenged the legitimacy of virtually every professional and institutional practice of twentieth-century schooling. The structural implications of inclusive education are quite clear: it requires fundamental changes of the most basic structural features of schools as organizations, that is, the very ways in which the work in schools is divided and coordinated among professionals. The cultural implications turn on recognizing the historical separation between general and special education and the structural isolation of all teachers.
Is Full Inclusion Desirable? There is much debate surrounding the subject of full inclusion of students with disabilities in regular classrooms. Is full inclusion of disabled students desirable? ... (Stainback, 1992) There are also critics of full inclusion. ... (Lewis & Doorlag, 1991) According to Crawford, implementation of full inclusion policies carries with them a hidden agenda. ...
Issue 14: Is Full Inclusion of Disabled Students Desirable? ... In issue 14 they spent time addressing the idea of full inclusion of disable students. ... Dodge believe that full inclusion can benefit all students. They believe that many people do not understand what full inclusion entails. ... In our groups, all except myself leaned more to full inclusion. ...
My group discussed the article "Is Full Inclusion of Disabled Students Desirable?" ... My hypothesis was that most of us were going to agree with the statement and say that it was a good for inclusion of disabled students. ... When our discussion started out we all agreed that to have inclusion for disabled students was a good thing. ... One of the older people in my group continued to say that if her child was in a class that had inclusion she would pull her child out of the class because she feels that it would hurt her child from learning and distract the other students that are trying to...
Full Inclusion: Are the Schools Ready? ... The success of full inclusion lies in the hands of the teachers and the school systems. ... The attitudes of peers toward students with disabilities have also been investigated (Full Inclusion). ... For parents, generally positive attitudes about inclusion appeared to be the norm, although anxiety about the actual mechanics was also seen (Full Inclusion). ... After analyzing three large scale projects designed to restructure schools to better accommodate students with disabilities in general education classrooms it was concluded that: general ed...
Full Inclusion: Are the Schools Ready? ... The success of full inclusion lies in the hands of the teachers and the school systems. ... The attitudes of peers toward students with disabilities have also been investigated (Full Inclusion). ... For parents, generally positive attitudes about inclusion appeared to be the norm, although anxiety about the actual mechanics was also seen (Full Inclusion). ... After analyzing three large scale projects designed to restructure schools to better accommodate students with disabilities in general education classrooms it was concluded that: general ed...
Recognizing its complexity, Dewey advised using those cases in which we find there is a real development of desirable [experiences] and to find out how this development took place (p. 4) and using this new understanding to guide our efforts at teaching and learning. ... Preparing for full lives as citizens and individuals; embedding inclusion, teamwork, creativity and innovation and to live rich and fulfilling lives as citizens and individuals, learners must be prepared for and have access to choices that affect their futures. ...
One factor that significantly increases the number of listings involves the number of links (inlinks and outlinks) a particular web page has, and how full a particular information category happens to be (Introna and Nissenbaum, 2000). ... Search engines also utilize what is known as inclusion and exclusion, which further manipulates search results (Spring, 2004). There can be paid inclusion, which search engines like Yahoo and Ask Jeeves use, in which an annual fee is paid for the search engine to index and link sites to produce desirable results (Spring, 2004). ...
Some solutions for the lack of low income housing are: lower rents in more desirable housing or better maintenance for those houses with low rents, and a time limit for families in the homes so that other less fortunate people can have a chance to move in and change their lives for the better. ...
