Reform, Inclusion and Teacher Education : Towards a New Era of Special Education in the Asia-Pacific Region (Hardcover)

Introduction  Section 1: Education Reform in Asia  1. Contemporary trends and issues in education reform for special and inclusive education in the Asia?Pacific region - Chris Forlin and Ming-Gon John Lian  2. Education reforms in special education - Wu-Tien Wu, Yong-Wood Kim and Adrian Ashman  3. Collaboration in the era of inclusion - Anuradha Naidu  4. Meeting new challenges of special education in China - Jiacheng Xu  Section 2: Preparing teachers to work in inclusive classrooms  5. Education reform for inclusion in the Asia?Pacific region: What about teacher education? - Chris Forlin  6. Preparing early childhood teachers to work with young children with disabilities - Hsin-Yi Wang  7. Training of special needs officers in Singapore to support inclusion - Kaili Chen and Kenneth Poon  8. Teachers’ attitudes, perceptions and concerns about inclusive education in the Asia?Pacific region - Chris Forlin, Mei-Lan Au and Stella Chong  Section 3: Effective special and inclusive practices  9. The challenge of raising student levels of achievement in an inclusive national curriculum - Keith Humphreys  10. Promoting inclusion in the primary classroom - Richard Rose  11. The inclusive secondary school teacher - Michelle Pearce  12. The changing roles and responsibilities of school principals relative to inclusive education - Umesh Sharma and Ishwar Desai  13. General classroom strategies to enhance the inclusion of students with learning difficulties - Bruce Knight, Lorraine Graham and Anne Bellert  14. Including children with autism in the culture of play with typical peers - Pamela Wolfberg  15. Including students with attention?deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic spectrum disorders - Neil Humphreys  16. Transition for students with disabilities - Gilson, Christie and Ming-Gon John Lian  17. Inclusive education as a catalyst for special educational reform in the Asia?Pacific region - Tim Loreman