Contextualizing Inclusive Education: Evaluating Old and New International Paradigms

• inclusive education means creating a single system of education, which serves all children
• inclusive education is a site of conflicting paradigms of children with special needs, centering on a psycho-medical model and a socio-political model
• while many countries seem committed to inclusive education in their rhetoric, legislation and policies, in practice this often falls short.

This major landmark resource is suitable for educational policy makers, researchers, teacher educators, students and international agencies with interests in education.