Relational and Responsive Inclusion

Contexts for Becoming and Belonging

Mere Berryman, Ann Nevin, Suzanne SooHoo, Therese Ford, Susan L. Gabel, Scot Danforth, Therese Ford, Ann Nevin, Suzanne SooHoo, Mere Berryman

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781453915479
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Bildung
• Subtopic: Grundschulbildung

Socially unjust circumstances continue to perpetuate inadequate classroom, school and system-level responses to longstanding social justice imperatives, shutting out power-sharing solutions to educational disparities and marginalizing populations of Indigenous and minoritized peoples. To address these educational disparities, this book proposes a relational and culturally responsive framework, from within a critical and indigenous paradigm that is designed to foster one's sense of becoming and belonging in the world with all people, and thus promotes inclusion. Praxis such as this challenges traditional paradigms that marginalize or dehumanize those with whom we seek to work. Social justice in education must be concerned with recognizing, respecting and being inclusive of the diversity of all students. Social justice is about valuing and including all children for the potential they arrive with and for the families that stand beside them, rather than on what we might aspire to change and mold them into being.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• About the Cover
• Chapter One: Cultural and Relational Responses to Inclusion and Belonging: A Dream to Dream Together (Mere Berryman, Ann Nevin, Suzanne SooHoo, and Therese Ford)
• Section I: The Changing Experiences, Policies, and Systems Supporting Students with Disabilities
• Section II: Research about Culturally Responsive Practices That Have Worked Towards Inclusion
• Author Biographies