Testing and Inclusive Schooling(Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education) H 286 p. 18
内容
Since 1994, when many countries ratified the Salamanca Statement on social and educational inclusion, worldwide efforts have been made to include all children in the general school system, and thus reduce exclusion. Testing and Inclusive Schooling provides a comparative perspective on these seemingly incompatible global agendas and efforts. With an examination of the international testing culture currently permeating national school reforms, alongside the international inclusiveness agenda, this book raises a critical and constructive discussion of these movements, which appear to support one another, yet simultaneously offer profound contradictions. With contributions from around the world, this book analyses the dilemma arising between school reforms that urge schools to move towards a constantly higher academic level, and those who practice a politics of inclusion leading to a greater degree of student diversity in schools. In addition to the discussion of this main dilemma, the chapters within the book will examine a second one arising between global agendas and local practices and solutions. Contributions to the book consider the types of problems that arise when reforms implemented at the international level are transformed into national and local policies and practices, whilst also applying a comparative view to educational practices and solutions. As a result, the proposed book firmly places global educational efforts into perspective, by highlighting a range of different cases at both national and local levels. Testing and Inclusive Schooling sheds light on new possibilities for educational improvements in global and local contexts and will be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students interested in international and comparative education, assessment technologies and practices, inclusion, educational psychology and educational policy.
