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Changing from a special school to an inclusion service
Author(s) -
Bannister Carol,
Sharland Vivienne,
Upton Vivian,
Walker David,
Thomas Gary
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
british journal of special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8578
pISSN - 0952-3383
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8527.t01-1-00059
Subject(s) - inclusion (mineral) , mainstream , service (business) , work (physics) , special educational needs , pedagogy , sociology , special education , mainstreaming , government (linguistics) , political science , gender studies , engineering , law , linguistics , business , mechanical engineering , philosophy , marketing
Members of the Somerset Inclusion Project and Gary Thomas (professor and reader in education at the University of the West of England, Bristol) discuss the need for schools to become more inclusive in response to the Government’s recent Green Paper (DfEE, 1997), which emphasises that special schools need to work in different ways and to provide services to local mainstream schools. The notion that inclusion is right and segregation is wrong led the staff to convert the Princess Margaret School (PMS) in Taunton, Somerset to an inclusion service.