Price: $26.99 US
Published: July 28, 2018
We are living through a global period of xenophobia, divisiveness, and new and old exclusions that is trickling down to our schools. There is no better way to teach inclusion than through the use of complex cases that make us think about how we normalize and/or disrupt exclusion in and out of schools. The cases in this book are excellent tools for stimulating in-class discussion and professional development, and it is in these educational spaces that we can begin to learn how to challenge the bullies who want to divide us.
~Gary Anderson, Dept. of Educational Leadership, NYU
This is a compelling text with useful practical guides for educators and field practitioners broadly defined. The international scope of the book makes it highly significant and relevant, pointing out the nuances, challenges, and possibilities of inclusivity, social justice, and equity education in contemporary times.
~George J. Sefa Dei, Professor of Social Justice Education; Director, Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies, OISE, University of Toronto
I appreciate the pedagogical aspirations of this book . . . It challenges us to enter into debates about what inclusion really means, in practice not just ambition. It is an unsettling book, without resolutions, reflecting the realities of lived experience but with a desire to move beyond the experiential to forge principles for inclusive practice.
~Professor Trevor Gayle, Head of the School of Education, University of Glasgow
As educational leaders we bring our lived experiences to our practices and decision making each day and we need to have mechanisms in place, whether that be a critical mentor, an advisory committee, or a intentional new learning experiences, that will challenge our biases to ensure that the “actions” we are taking provide equitable access and opportunity for all students and staff to feel valued, safe, accepted, and supported if we are committed to improving outcomes for all students.
~Manny Figueiredo, Director of Education, Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, Ontario, Canada
Darrin Griffiths and James Ryan, who are well-respected scholars and longstanding educators, have assembled a brilliant collage of international authors to provide their readers with 39 concise, engaging, morally problematic and provocative case studies, around the theme of inclusion. Based on current learning community realities, these cases introduce an array of well-formed issues, dilemmas, quandaries and imperatives. To work through the accompanying case questions is to be sensitized, educated, equipped and ethically transformed.
~Keith D. Walker, Professor, Educational Administration, University of Saskatchewan
Case Studies for Inclusive Educators & Leaders is a thought-provoking collection that collectively illustrates the diversity of what inclusive education means in various contexts. . . . Chapters offer a sophisticated mix of theoretical exploration and practical applications. Recommended for educational leaders, faculty in leadership preparation programs and professional development providers.
~Professor Jeffrey S. Brooks, Associate Dean, Research and Innovation, RMIT University School of Education
Exclusion in schools and societies--exceedingly various in its forms and targets--can be particularly difficult to interrupt when routinized and normalized, or as we see increasingly today, when masked by false claims to democracy. As educators and leaders strive toward inclusion in the most robust and complex sense, we need look no further than this collection by Griffiths, Ryan, and colleagues that magnifies the complexities, contingencies, and contradictions of doing so. The refusal to oversimplify that defines the vast array of richly detailed cases only pushes readers further to grapple, question, dialogue, and imagine.
~Kevin Kumashiro, author and former Dean of the School of Education, University of San Francisco
Inclusivity, equity, diversity and difference are all flushed out in Case Studies for Inclusive Educators & Leaders, where it is shown that to treat everybody equally does not mean treating them the same. In Case Studies, inclusivity and equity are poetically dealt with where the authors show—with elegance—the vision and the courage required to bring into existence a better and more hopeful, inclusive, and equitable future. Case Studies is a required reading for those who dare to educate and lead with their eyes wide-open and their consciousness wide-awake.
~Awad Ibrahim, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
