Relational and Responsive Inclusion: Contexts for Becoming and Belonging

Socially unjust circumstances continue to perpetuate inadequate classroom, school and system-level responses to longstanding social justice imperatives, shutting out power-sharing solutions to educational disparities and marginalizing populations of Indigenous and minoritized peoples. To address these educational disparities, this book proposes a relational and culturally responsive framework, from within a critical and indigenous paradigm that is designed to foster one’s sense of becoming and belonging in the world with all people, and thus promotes inclusion. Praxis such as this challenges traditional paradigms that marginalize or dehumanize those with whom we seek to work. Social justice in education must be concerned with recognizing, respecting and being inclusive of the diversity of all students. Social justice is about valuing and including all children for the potential they arrive with and for the families that stand beside them, rather than on what we might aspire to change and mold them into being.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Mere Berryman/Ann Nevin/Suzanne SooHoo/Therese Ford: Cultural and Relational Responses to Inclusion and Belonging: A Dream to Dream Together – Ted Glynn: Culturally Responsive Inclusion: On Whose Terms? – Ann Nevin: Culturally Responsive Inclusion - a Possible Imperative? – Sonja Macfarlane/Angus Macfarlane: Inclusion For All - or Just Some? Drawing from Evidence that Counts for Māori: Whaia ki te ara tika – Helen Jacob/Clint Green: Working within Government: Contexts to Include Māori Students with Hearing Impairments in Education – Margaret Egan: Opening Futures: Culturally Responsive and Relational Practice in Schools – Ahmed Younis: Muslim American Conscientização: A Primer on Engaging Muslim American Students – Holly Pearson: Rethinking the Process of Engagement: Considering the Possibilities – Mere Berryman/Paul Woller: Cultural and Relational Contexts for Becoming and Belonging – Therese Ford: Connecting with Māori Whānau and Community – Carlos Perez: The Maintenance and Transmission of Indigenous Languages and Cultures by Immigrants to the United States – Michelle Spadoni/Gweneth Hartrick Doane/Pat Sevean/Karen Poole/Sandra Cornell/Lorne McDougall: Inclusion of Indigenous World Views into Nursing Curricula – Suzanne SooHoo: School as a Place of Becoming and Belonging: Starting with One Child to Whole School Reform – Robbie Lamont: Reflecting on Inclusion through a Culturally Responsive Lens – Amy Hanreddy: Forced Choices and Limited Options: Latino and White Parents of Adolescents with Significant Disabilities Navigate the Labyrinth of a Large Urban School District.