Inclusive Education: Principles and Practice
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It is often said that inclusive education is difficult to define and is a complex term. It is also said that inclusive education means different things to different people. While these propositions are helpful in understanding the complexity of inclusive education, they are also limiting. If inclusive education is complex and not easy to define, how can schools and teachers know how to realise it? Part of this difficulty is that inclusion, the underlying concept of inclusive education, is a broad term with applicability to different contexts. Inclusion is one of these terms that we all know what it means but it can be elusive to define.
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