Initial Research Writing

I'm going to start all of this with picking out direct quotes from my sources that I think will be helpful or I may want to reference in my paper.  I also sent an e-mail to my mom's friend with interview questions and am waiting on that to be returned...I think that will be an excellent source for my paper.  


quotes:
---"The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (1997) requires that a continuum of placement options be made available to meet the needs of students with disabilities.  The law also requires that to the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities are educated with children who are not disabled, and that special classes, separate schooling, or removal of children with disabilities from the regular environment occur only when the nature of severity of the disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be attained satisfactorily" (Fakolade, and Adeniyi 60-4)
---"The voices of those supporting inclusive education, such as Stainback and Stainback (1991), assert that inclusive education is the most effective means of combating discriminatory attitudes, creating welcoming communities, building an inclusive society and achieving equal educational opportunities for all" (Fakolade, and Adeniyi 60-4)
---"Critics, however, argued that inclusive schools will not adequately meet the needs of the disabled and that those children with disabilities will receive more attention and therapy in segregated schools rather than inclusive schools" (Fakolade, and Adeniyi 60-4)
---"This, therefore, calls for the reason why researchers are concerned about the attitude of teachers towards the inclusion of children with special needs in the general education curriculum" (Fakolade, and Adeniyi 60-4)
---"Studies, however, assert that the inclusive schools lack adequate technological equipment and incentives needed to provide special needs education in Nigeria" (Fakolade, and Adeniyi 60-4)
--"In another similar judgment, a student was denied access to a school because this individual was classified as 'mentally retarded' and unable to be taught.  The Nigerian teachers of that period deemed providing schooling for this particular group of people a complete waste of time, simply because the disability made it impossible for children with special needs to fit into the standard system and learn with only the methods and supports offered to the "normal children".  Thus, a great amount of similar judgments by teachers have negatively influenced the education of students with special needs, hence, creating a problem in their academics" (Fakolade, and Adeniyi 60-4)
---"The findings indicate that of the 200 regular primary school teachers interviewed, 60% of them rejected inclusion, while 35% of them would want inclusion provided they are adequately trained; the remaining 5% were undecided on the issue" (Fakolade, and Adeniyi 60-4)
---"Administrators in those schools, which are often characterized by isolation and lower funding, have real concerns about the effectiveness of inclusion and whether or not inclusion is achieving its objectives" (Smoot 6-13)
---"Rural teachers, like their urban counterparts, feel unprepared to cope with a much larger range of learner needs within the regular classroom for longer periods of time" (Smoot 6-13)
---"Another problem for rural schools is that inclusion programs can be expensive to implement when special education support services are provided by special education teachers within the general education class; thus resulting in two teachers on the payroll" (Smoot 6-13)
---"Additional money must be spent on cross training general and special education teachers and on teaching them to work collaboratively" (Smoot 6-13)
---Full inclusion: "Defined as the situation where the student with special needs is provided with all of his or her special education services within the general education classroom"
---Partial inclusion: "Situation where some of the time, the student is removed from the general education classroom for special education or related services" (Smoot 6-13)
---Mainstreaming: "When a student in a self-contained special education setting joins a regular education class for classes with lower academic demands such as music, physical education, science, social studies, exploratory middle school classes, or vocational classes in the secondary school" (Smoot 6-13)
---"A study of the quality of life of adolescents with MID in rural Australia revealed that 89% made their friends at school" (Smoot 6-13)


OKAY. typing all of these is taking forever and may not be that useful.  so I'm going to stick to highlighting haha.  Anyway, just doing these two sources definitely helped.


Through my research, I've decided that there are definitely points I want to hit on in my paper.  Additionally, I think I am going to form a general outline before writing my formal outline, just with what each paragraph will be about and where I want to bring different research in.  I definitely want to talk about the IDEA act and will do some more research on that...I think that will be a good way to start the paper out.  Then I may do a section on different pros of inclusion then another with different cons.  I think I will include the 3 different extents of inclusion that the one source described after I state pros and cons to show that this is not a 2 sided issue but instead is very complex.  I want to explain the impact inclusion will have on teachers, on the special needs students, on the general education students, and the classroom in general.


WOW THIS PAPER IS GOING TO TAKE A LOT OF TIME....i better get an A ;)