Social Justice & Inclusive Education

Module overview

Societies are increasingly diverse nowadays. This module aims to explore the complexity of the concepts of social justice and inclusive education and how everyone can contribute towards the development of a more inclusive world. This will be achieved by exploring critically the policies and practices in relation to individuals or groups of learners who have been traditionally marginalised such as those defined as having special educational needs, ethnic minorities, travellers, those from low socioeconomic backgrounds etc. There will be a special focus on how research can promote inclusion and social justice.

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

This module will use a mix of lectures and seminars along with directed reading and suggested additional research. The focus will be on small group discussion, plus small group presentations. Typically this module is taught through 9 sessions of two hours plus one week of individual tutorials.

Study time
Type	Hours
Independent Study	131
Teaching	19
Total study time	150

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Journals. British Educational Research Journal British Journal of Special Needs Education Educational Review European Journal of Special Needs Education Harvard Educational Review International Journal of Inclusive Education JORSEN (Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs) Support for Learning

Textbooks

The light in their eyes. New York: Teachers’ College Press.

Action Research in Practice; Partnerships for Social Justice in Education. London: Routledge.

Learning without Limits. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Confronting marginalisation in education: A framework for promoting inclusion. London: Routledge.

Improving Schools, Developing Inclusion. London: Routledge.

Creating Learning without Limits. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Inclusive Education: Learners and Learning Contexts.. London: David Fulton Publishers.

Improving Learning through Consulting Pupils. London: Routledge.

Responding to diversity in schools: An inquiry based approach.. London: Routledge.

Social Justice, Education and Identity. London: Routledge.

Inclusive Education: International Policy and Practice.. London: SAGE.

Educational research for social justice. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Understanding the Development of Inclusive Schools. London: Falmer.

Action for Social Justice in Education.. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Doing Visual Research with Children and Young People. London: Routledge.

Florian, L. (2014). The SAGE Handbook of Special Education. London: SAGE.

The Irregular School. London: Routledge.

From Them to Us: An international study of Inclusion in Education. London: Routledge.

Supporting Inclusive Education. London: Routledge/Falmer.

Assessment

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Assignment	100%

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Assignment	100%

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Assignment	100%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External