Talk:Inclusion (education)

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This page seriously lacks references.

Agreed. It also reads like a personal opinion essay.
Best,
Rosmoran 09:36, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Recent work (27 November 2007)

Whatamidoing: That's a good solution to the USA legal thing. There's another specific USA reference - at least I assume it is - later in the entry: "K12". I'm not sure what this is. There's a sentence at the end of the progressive education section that doesn't belong there too, but I'm not sure what to do with it. Rowmn (talk) 20:36, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

As I understand it, K-12 is not just a U.S. designation, although it's certainly not used worldwide. (It means Kindergarten through the twelfth year, so school from about age 5 to about age 17.) However, inclusion advocates probably believe that both early childhood education and university should also be restructured to be inclusive, so I am not convinced that limiting the statement to normal primary and secondary school years is accurate.
The other sentence is harder. It's basically on topic and referenced (although it would be worth checking to see whether the reference actually supports that claim). Perhaps it would fit better at the end of the introduction. Or perhaps it belongs in a philosophy essay, and should be deleted from an encyclopedia article. WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:07, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
OK that sentence is now at the end of the introduction. I'm happy that it's a statement of fact that inclusion is controversial. The reference only goes to someone else saying the same thing, so perhaps it shouldn't be a reference but just listed in the external links. Rowmn (talk) 14:27, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Undid some formatting that appeared to have been carried out randomly. Please accept apologies if someone did this with good intentions. My judgment is based partly on the notes that appear on the talk page for this IP address - which imply that there has been frequent vandalism from it. Rowmn (talk) 17:41, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed

I'm not sure how to make this actually fit, so I'm pulling it out for now. It seems odd.WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:44, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Inclusion remains a controversial concept in education because it relates to educational and social values, as well as to our sense of individual worth.[1]

[edit] Merge request

Original request posted at WP:RM: "Inclusion is simply another method of helping special needs students achieve their full potential. Special education is about the methods of helping special needs students achieve their full potential. It makes no sense to have another article for it. It only confuses the whole thing. It would make sense to have the inclusion article merged into the special education article. --Tigereyes92 (talk) 01:42, 4 May 2008 (UTC) "

This is a merge request not a requested move as originally posted so I have added the appropriate headers. Nonetheless, discuss away. — AjaxSmack 02:00, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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  • Support - as nominator. Inclusion is simply another method of helping special needs students achieve their full potential. Special education is about the methods of helping special needs students achieve their full potential. It makes no sense to have another article for it. It only confuses the whole thing. It would make sense to have the inclusion article merged into the special education article. --Tigereyes92 (talk) 01:42, 4 May 2008 (UTC)