Are teachers ready for inclusion? What is appropriate teacher education?

Traditional approaches to inclusive education focused on learners with disabilities. Modern approaches, however, conceptualise inclusion in terms of providing educational equity and equality of access for all students within the same regular school system.

Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education provides a wealth of ideas about how to support teachers to become inclusive through the application of positive training approaches. Written by some of the most influential internationally acknowledged experts in teacher education for inclusion and highly experienced researchers, together the authors provide a plethora of ideas for teacher educators to ensure that their training is pertinent, accessible, and futures-orientated.

This up to date and accessible book combines three key areas related to teacher education for inclusion, which provide:

A review of what is happening across the globe by offering examples from different regions;

Preparation for teachers to support learners with a range of diverse needs including disability, poverty, ethnicity, gender, cultural diversity, learning disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder, sensory impairments and those who are considered gifted and talented;

A consideration of systemic approaches, policy, and partnerships, and how these can be better employed in the future.

This highly topical text will support all teaching professionals, educational systems, and schools in their transformation of inclusive teacher education.

Contents

List of tables

List of figures

List of contributors

Editorial Board

Foreword

Preface

Part I

Global perspectives on teacher education for inclusion

Responding to the need for inclusive teacher education: Rhetoric or reality?

CHRIS FORLIN

Including children with disabilities in regular classes: Current climate and future d in Malaysia

HANIZ IBRAHIM

A training model for enhancing the learning capacity of students with special needs in inclusive classrooms in Thailand

PENNEE KANTAVONG

Development of learning in regular class and measure of teacher education in China

JIA–CHENG XU

A Mosaic of models: Teacher education for inclusion in Israel

GILADA AVISSAR

The directions of Finnish teacher education in the era of revised Act on Basic Education

OLLI–PEKKA MALINEN AND HANNU SAVOLAINEN

Preparing teachers to meet the challenges of inclusive education in Negara Brunei Darussalam

KATHLEEN TAIT AND LAWRENCE MUNDIA

Emerging issues in teacher education for inclusion in the United States

MICHAEL M. GERBER

Part II

Diversity and its challenges

Diversity and its challenges for teachers

CHRIS FORLIN

Inclusion for innovation: The potential for diversity in teacher education

GWANG–JO KIM AND JOHA...