What is it about?
This paper explains how staff, in an inclusive and high achieving secondary school, developed new understandings of how to manage student behaviour so that both staff and students gained educational benefits.
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Why is it important?
This paper is important as it addresses the issues of student discipline, inclusion and professionalism in a high stakes secondary school context. How do you increase achievement and be inclusive?
Perspectives
For me this paper was about showing how inclusive values (that Booth and Ainscow stuff) was bought to life in a complex and now high achieving secondary school. I am a New Zealander and inclusive education, social justice and equity values are important to me. So how did the staff in an English school solve the dilemma of 'pupil discipline' and achievement? This school became a high achieving school in the context of Excellence in Cities and is one of a large number of examples of schools, under the various policies, worked professionally and collegially to work towards this difficult problem.
Dr Gwen J Gilmore
Victoria University
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This page is a summary of: What's so inclusive about an inclusion room? Staff perspectives on student participation, diversity and equality in an English secondary school, British Journal of Special Education, March 2012, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8578.2012.00534.x.
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