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Resourced provision: the impact of inclusive practices on a mainstream primary school
Author(s) -
Glazzard Jonathan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
support for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1467-9604
pISSN - 0268-2141
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9604.12025
Subject(s) - mainstream , inclusion (mineral) , special educational needs , psychology , pedagogy , special education , medical education , political science , medicine , social psychology , law
This personal account from a special educational needs co‐ordinator illustrates the negative impact that resourced provision has had on one school. The provision caters for children with communication and interaction difficulties and is housed in a mainstream primary school. For this school, while the provision has had a beneficial impact on the development of inclusive values among pupils, it has also led to a decline in the overall effectiveness of the school. The achievement data of pupils in the provision has had a detrimental impact on overall school performance data. Current narrow measures of school effectiveness in E ngland mean that schools with increasingly diverse student populations can pay the price for their commitment to inclusion, as this example illustrates.