Researching Special and Inclusive Education

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5297-0907-0
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 369 g

Researching in special and inclusive education can be challenging due to the frequent difficulties in eliciting the views of individuals identified with SEND. This book will give students the confidence to be creative, flexible, and innovative when it comes to planning research, particularly with children and young people within special and inclusive education.

Students will be guided through each step of the research process, from the development of a research question to ethical considerations, methodologies and data analysis, before being led through the many practical issues that need to be considered when planning, executing and writing up research in this field, including good research practices, solutions to possible dilemmas and adapting methods appropriately.

Kerry Vincent is a Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Helen Benstead is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, and Programme Leader of the MA Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion at the University of Sunderland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vincent, Kerry

Benstead, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Perspectives in research: Understanding the ‘ologies’
Chapter 3 Getting started: Developing a research study in special and inclusive education
Chapter 4 Ethical considerations when researching special and inclusive education
Chapter 5 Reviewing the literature in special and inclusive education
Chapter 6 Common methodological approaches in special and inclusive education
Chapter 7 Listening: Collecting data using interviews and questionnaires
Chapter 8 Looking: Collecting data using observation
Chapter 9 Adapting methodology to special and inclusive education
Chapter 10 Managing, analysing and presenting data
Chapter 11 Moving forward

Über Autor(innen)

Benstead, Helen
Dr Helen Benstead is Associate Professor of Inclusive Education and Academic Director of the Graduate School at the University of Sunderland, where she manages the strategy for post-graduate research degrees across the university.
She began her career with a BA (QTS) in Primary Education, before completing an MPhil at Cambridge and a PhD at York. Helen has held senior policy roles in central and local government, working as a Youth Policy Advisor at the Cabinet Office and for the Mayor of London on his Education and Youth strategy. Helen also founded Inclusive Classrooms, a social enterprise supporting Teaching Assistants across the UK.
Helen has authored a range of professional development materials, published widely on inclusive education and participatory research methodologies, and continues to research socially inclusive practices in the field of education.

Vincent, Kerry
Dr Kerry Vincent is a Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education at the University of Canterbury (NZ) and has a particular interest in learner ‘differences’ and how these are conceptualized and responded to within schools. In the past, she has worked as a teacher, educational psychologist and researcher. Her interest in inclusive education was sparked in her second year of teaching when she unexpectedly found herself the teacher of a profoundly deaf child. She learned, often through trial and error, that the best outcomes occurred when she focused not on learner ‘differences’ but rather on how to modify the educational environment in ways that would support children’s learning and well-being. She also learned that children and young people have valuable insights to contribute to our understandings of them, if only we take the time and find the means to truly listen to what they have to say.