WIDENING THE CIRCLE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Widening the Circle is a passionate, even radical argument for
creating school and classroom environments where all kids,
including children labeled as “disabled” and “special needs,” are
welcome on equal terms.
　　In opposition to traditional models of special education, where
teachers decide when a child is deemed “ready to compete” in
“mainstream” classes, Mara Sapon-Shevin articulates a vision of
full inclusion as a practical and moral goal. Inclusion, she
argues, begins not with the assumption that students have to earn
their way into the classroom with their behavior or skills, it
begins with the right of every child to be in the mainstream of
education, perhaps with modifications, adaptations, and support.
Full inclusion requires teachers to think about all aspects of
their classrooms—pedagogy, curriculum, and classroom climate.
　　Crucially, Sapon-Shevin takes on arguments against full inclusion
in a section of straight-talking answers to common questions. She
agrees with critics that the rhetoric of inclusion has been used to
justify eliminating services and “dumping” students with
significant educational needs unceremoniously back into the
mainstream with little or no support. If full inclusion is properly
implemented, however, she argues, it not only clearly benefits
those traditionally excluded but enhances the educations and lives
of those considered mainstream in myriad ways.
　　Through powerful storytelling and argument, Sapon-Shevin lays out
the moral and educational case for not separating kids on the basis
of difference.

　　”Widening the Circle is an ambitious, impassioned argument for
inclusive schools powered by a vision that goes far beyond the
mutilated version of ‘mainstreaming’ common in American schools
today. To Sapon-Shevin the current state of affairs is a caricature
of inclusive education, reductive and impoverished, a place where
every student is defined by a putative deficit, imprisoned in a
label. Her goal—breathtaking in its sweep—is to break through the
walls of the prison, and to set us all free. She shows us that huge
questions of democracy and freedom can be discovered in a simple
game of musical chairs, that our deepest values are enacted in our
everyday classroom practice. A dazzling manifesto and call to
arms.”—William Ayers, author of Teaching toward Freedom and To
Teach
　　”Widening the Circle is packed with sharply observed challenges
to conventional ways of thinking. It digs beneath classroom
strategies to find larger truths about difference, exposing the
moral implications of segregation in the process. One by one,
Sapon-Shevin skewers the philosophical and practical objections to
inclusion. Her book should be read by all educators, not just those
in the field of special education.”—Alfie Kohn, author of The
Schools Our Children Deserve and What Does It Mean to Be Well
Educated?
　　”I love the spirit that infuses the book and the constant
reference to the connection between school values and larger
democratic values, as well as its attention to the nitty-gritty of
classroom life. A book both practical and thoughtful.”—Deborah
Meier, author of The Power of Their Ideas
　　”With a profound vision and a gift for storytelling, Sapon-Shevin
leads educators to think of social justice in terms of classrooms
that are truly inclusive, and in the process, challenges and
broadens the very ways that we think about inclusion: of whom, in
what ways, for what purposes. Essential reading for all
educators.”—Kevin K. Kumashiro, Director, Center for
Anti-Oppressive Education