Entries in BOOKS (15)

Tuesday
Sep202011

Altogether Better (1994)

by Micheline Mason & Richard Rieser (T)

Contents:  A booklet and video pack which explains the importance of educating disabled children in mainstream schools. Has some useful graphics and cartoons and arguments for inclusive education Comic Relief/RRDE . The film clips can be used with classes. http://www.worldofinclusion.com/resources.htm#altogether

[Click this link for a PDF version]

Tuesday
Sep202011

Bibliography of Inclusive Children's Literature

 Check out this long bibliography with many books for children in EYFS and KS1 -  

TO A FULL LIST OF ALL OUR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE RECOMENDATIONS CAN BE FOUND BY CLICKING THIS LINK... 

Wednesday
Nov162011

Born on the Fourth of July - Ron Kovic

Antiwar activist and Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic has turned his personal tragedy into a blessing by helping other people. As a young ma, Kovic thought that fighting a a war was a heroic, glamorous job.

Kovic was paralyzed from the waist-down after he was shot in the shoulder. Physically wounded and mentally unstable, Kovic thought he would return home to a hero's welcome. Instead, he was spat on by Americans, and placed in a miserable Veteran's Hospital.

See this link for more details -http://www.heroism.org/class/1970/kovic.html

or check this out : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-kovic/a-letter-to-the-president_b_337002.html

 

Thursday
Oct272011

Camden Society book

"I Want What You Have: Five Decades of Making it Happen"

A book telling the story of the Camden Society, an organization with the human rights of people with learning difficulties at its heart, in the context of the social care policy of 20th century Britain.

Click here to read a fantastic review

Wednesday
Nov162011

Disability and Social Change

"Combining critical policy analysis with biographical accounts, this book provides a socio-historical account of the changing treatment of disabled people in Britain from the 1940s to the present day. It asks whether life has really changed for disabled people and shows the value of using biographical methods in new and critical ways to examine social and historical change over time."

http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847427861&

Tuesday
Sep202011

Disabled People in Britain and Discrimination

by Colin Barnes (1991), Hurst, London.

Contents: General position disabled people.  Chapters on position of disabled people education and history very relevant. This book paved way for legislation in the UK.

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/Barnes/disabled%20people%20and%20discrim%20foreward.pdf

Tuesday
Sep202011

Disabling Imagery (2004)

by Richard Rieser

Contents: A teachers guide packed full of ideas for examining how disability has been portrayed in moving images of cinema and TV. Lots of lesson ideas. A DVD with 22 film clips included. From British Film Institute or Worldof inclusion.com  £25. DVD on its own £10.

Online text: www.bfi.org.uk/disablingimagery

[Or click here for full PDF version

Tuesday
Sep202011

Incurably Human (2005)

Written and Illustrated by Micheline Mason

Contents: An excellent essay on why the development of inclusion is essential, drawing on insights from the author, as a disabled parent of a disabled child. Available from Inclusive Solutions.

Buy online: http://www.inclusive-solutions.com/bookdetails.asp?ID=39 

Wednesday
Nov162011

Live Eels and Grand Pianos

by Andrew Bradford

“Live Eels and Grand Pianos” is both a family memoir and a significant contribution to the social history of the twentieth century. It tells the story of the author's parents, Charlie and Kathy Bradford. Charlie and Kathy were seriously disabled by Polio when they were young children. Charlie contracted the disease in 1909, when he was three, and Kathy in 1913, when she was ten months old. “Live Eels and Grand Pianos” tells the story of their extraordinary courage in the face of adversity.

Find out more or buy the book at http://www.andrewbradfordauthor.com/

Tuesday
Sep202011

Out of Sight:

The Experience of Disability 1900-1950

by Humphries, S., & Gordon, P. (1992). Plymouth: Northcote House

Contents: Many first hand accounts of the experience of disabled people. A compelling book, extensively illustrated with rare photographs.  The authors tell the story of disabled people in Britain in the days before the Welfare state. Based on many interviews with blind, deaf and physically disabled people. Linked to Channel 4 TV Series

Activity drawing on the book Education of disabled people in first part of C20th
[Click here for PDF or “Schooling for Disabled Pupils 1900-1950]

Click here to go to Youtube.com > The Story of the effects of the Mental Deficiency Act 1913