What Makes an Inclusive Teacher? Can Fish Climb Trees? Mapping the European Agency Profile of Inclusive Teachers to the English System
FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 55 Number 1 (2013)
What Makes an Inclusive Teacher? Can Fish Climb Trees? Mapping the European Agency Profile of Inclusive Teachers to the English System
JOHN CORNWALL pages 103-114
DOI: 10.2304/forum.2013.55.1.103
Abstract
This article examines whether or not teachers working in an inherently exclusive education system can in fact be 'inclusive teachers'. The author draws on work done over the past three years in a pan-European Teacher Education project highly committed to notions of social and educational cohesion and equity, and challenges both fixed and hierarchical notions of ability, valuing all learners equally. The development of a pan-European Profile of Inclusive Teachers serves as an indirect challenge to the legitimacy of politicians and executive bodies in England for lack of cohesion and failing to establish some kind of equity and inclusion for young people.
To cite this article
JOHN CORNWALL (2013) What Makes an Inclusive Teacher? Can Fish Climb Trees? Mapping the European Agency Profile of Inclusive Teachers to the English System, FORUM, 55(1), 103-114. https://doi.org/10.2304/forum.2013.55.1.103