Analysing inclusive education policy

Analysing inclusive education policy

• Cheng, Yan Ni Annie The Education University of Hong Kong

The Asia Leadership Roundtable 2017: Seven years on: The state of the Asian knowledge base? (2017: Hotel Regalees, New Taipei City, Taiwan)

• E Special Education
  • EG Inclusive Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

The Hong Kong government proposed a three-year pilot project of arranging a Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) in the schools. Using this new policy as a case study, this study aims to develop a better understanding of inclusive education policy in a Chinese context and to identify what concerns of this policy in practice that can help the implementation of policy change. This presentation uses critical discourse analysis to analyse the government policy papers and the responses from the public based on multiple sources. The findings suggest that this policy attempts to satisfy both the economic and educational needs together. Yet, there is a gap between the expectations of the government and understanding of the community. Future research is recommended to explore and gain broad and in-depth understandings of added values and effects of SENCOs’ role on inclusive practices in the pilot schools in contrast to those existing provisions.

Paper presented at The Asia Leadership Roundtable 2017: Seven years on: The state of the Asian knowledge base?, Hotel Regalees, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/227025ae

2017-06-19