Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement

Embed the principles of inclusion into your students' teaching practices.

Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement presents a clear, socially-oriented approach to understanding and developing inclusive education. It prepares pre-service teachers for diverse classrooms and helps them develop strategies to engage students of varying backgrounds, needs and abilities.

This new edition has been updated to reflect changes in legislation, policy, regulation, curriculum, research and practice. It takes a fresh look at what inclusion means and explores the new dimensions of disadvantage or limitations for children to fully participate in education. Retaining a strong focus on student engagement, it addresses areas that are proving challenging for teachers in engaging all students in inclusive learning environments - these include a greater number of children from immigrant families, the increasing impact of poverty in Australia, the greater influence of technology on education and an increasing divide between rich and poor.

With extensive learning features that blend theoretical issues and context with practical skills, this book provides pre-service teachers with the knowledge and understanding to manage classroom challenges and develop inclusive learning environments.

Highlights:

• Includes school and classroom factors that can influence the inclusion, learning, and development of school students
• Provides detailed guidance on forms of pedagogy that are specific to different groups of students
• Offers guidelines for teaching that can meet the learning orientations of First Australians, immigrants and refugees, students with disabilities, gender identity and expression, second language learners, and students with behaviour and mental health challenges
• Encourages a strength-based approach rather than a deficit-based approach
• Written by highly experienced specialists in their fields
• A chapter on the future of inclusive education is provided to provoke discussion and forward planning

Table of Contents

PART 1: Setting the Scene

1. Understanding Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement
2. Australian Schools, Policy and Legislation in Perspective

Part 2: Embracing Diversity

3. Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
4. Indigenous Perspectives and Cultural Identity
5. Gender, Inclusivity and Engagement

Part 3: Supporting Diverse Learning Needs in the Classroom

6. Understanding How to Support Students with Literacy Difficulties
7. Assisting Children with Learning Difficulties in Mathematics
8. Challenging Behaviour in the Inclusive Classroom
9. Supporting Students with Complex Communication Needs
10. Supporting Students with Intellectual Disabilities
11. Understanding Vision Impairment
12. Understanding Hearing Loss
13. Supporting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
14. Supporting Diverse Gifted Students
15. Understanding Physical Impairment in Young Children
16. Supporting Mental Health and Well-being: Promotion, Prevention and Intervention

Part 4: Creating Diverse and Inclusive Schools

17. Participation in What, and with Which Outcomes? Pedagogic Rights and the Purposes of Education
18. Accommodating Transitions across the Years
19. Creating Inclusive Schools