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Teacher Education for the Changing Demographics of Schooling: Inclusive Education for Each and Every Learner

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The demographic profile of students in schools today is more complex than ever before. Schools are more diverse and multicultural in terms of ethnicity, language, religion and disability status. This chapter considers how reforms of teacher education in support of inclusive education can respond to the challenges associated with the changing demographics of schooling. A key consideration is the idea that all learners are unique individuals and differences are to be expected as an ordinary aspect of human development. Therefore, all teachers, not just some, should be prepared in ways that support a view of difference as to be expected within the remit of classroom teaching and the term inclusive education is used deliberately to signify diversity issues as a central imperative of practice rather than a secondary consideration to be dealt with separately.

The original version of this chapter was revised. An erratum to this chapter can be found at DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-54389-5_17

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Florian, L. (2017). Teacher Education for the Changing Demographics of Schooling: Inclusive Education for Each and Every Learner. In: Florian, L., Pantić, N. (eds) Teacher Education for the Changing Demographics of Schooling. Inclusive Learning and Educational Equity, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54389-5_2

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