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Annotated Bibliography

How/Why is Inclusion Important?

Cody Coleman
Professor Malcolm Campbell
English 1103
3/12/2015

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Annotated Bibliography
Swain, Kristine D., Philip D. Nordness, and Elizabeth M. Leader-Janssen. "Changes in
Preservice Teacher Attitudes Toward Inclusion."Preventing School Failure: Alternative
Education for Children and Youth 56.2 (2012): 75-81. Web. 8 Mar. 2015.
This is an Academic Journal and is also peer reviewed. This article talks about students
with disabilities being placed in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) which means:
students with disabilities should be educated as close to the general education classroom
as possible while still meeting their individualized educational needs. When they talk
about the LRE, they talk about how both children with and without disabilities benefit
from it. The students without disabilities benefit from it because they get to be around
other students who may be different from them which teaches them how to be accepting
of all types of people. The students with disabilities benefit because they feel included
with their general education peers and get the same amount of access to technology and
other things that the general education students get. The LRE ties goes hand-in-hand with
the idea of inclusion because both wants students with special needs to work and learn
closely with students without special needs. In this article they also talk about three steps
that make inclusion work; First, students with disabilities must be placed in the same
classroom as their nondisabled peers and removed only when it is necessary. Second,
peer and teacher relationships should be nurtured and promoted within the classroom
setting. Last, students with disabilities should be taught using the same evidenced-based
curriculum used for students without disabilities and adjusted to meet the needs of the
exceptional learner. Both the LRE and inclusion ideas want students in special education
to learn and participate with students in general education.

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There are a couple ways to know that this article is reliable. One, because it is an
academic journal and two, it is also peer reviewed, which means that a lot of professors
and other people read and critiqued it to make it better.
This article will be useful to serve on the side of the argument that is for inclusion. It will
also give me another part to inclusion which is the LRE for students. That helps show that
inclusion is not just throwing students who have special needs in a general education
classroom just because they can, but rather its about finding the least restrictive
environment for the students to learn in so they get the most out of their education

Cromwell, Sharon. "Inclusion In The Classroom: Has It Gone Too Far?"Education World. N.p.,
27 Oct. 1997. Web. 8 Mar. 2015.
This is an article from the magazine Education World." In this article, the author
presents both sides of this argument: is inclusion fair or unfair to kids with and without
disabilities. The author does a good job of giving many different angles of the issue. She
talks about some of the views special education teachers have versus general education
teachers and also some of the potential worries that the parents of children with special
needs may have. One side of this article talks about how general educations teachers are
not trained to handle the behaviors of kids with special needs. This would mean there
would need to be another teacher in the room with them, which would also mean more
funding needed and more teachers. General education teachers also have concerns about
what type of technology the children with special needs would need in the classroom
which would also require more money. On the other side, Special education teachers and
others who support full inclusion believe that it is important to give every child, with

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or without a disability, the exact same opportunities. This also means including all
children in a general education class, even those with disabilities. In this article, there are
also the views of parents and people who support inclusion but suggest that it differs
from child to child. This means that they want the main goal of schools to be putting
children with disabilities in the Least Restrictive Environment." This simply means an
environment or classroom that they think the child will benefit the most from. At the end
of the article it gives a few things that would need to happen for a successful inclusion
program including more teachers and adequate training are two examples because it
would make the parents, teachers, and students feel safer about inclusion programs.
Even though this article was first published in 1997, it was updated in 2011 so it is
still relevant to this decade. This article is good to use because it gives so many different
views on just this one topic. Even though the actual article is not very long, it says a lot in
few words about the perspectives of parents and teachers. It also gives resources the
author used, which are creditable so the information is reliable.
This source goes very well with my project. It shows many different angles of the
issue and is reliable. It also made me think about what the parents of children with
disabilities worried about, which is something I had not considered in my original
thoughts. This source will fit into my project as an overview or in a place for general
concerns about inclusion because it does give a lot of different angles and views about
my topic but it does not go into a lot of detail about them which is something I will look
for in other resources.

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Dampbell, Malcolm. Title of this here as a sample format for a citation for a scholarly source
that came from an online database. International Journal of Monkey Business 50.1
(2010): 173-96. Academic Search Premier. Web. 21 Feb. 2012.
Drop a line to begin your summary, evaluation and assessment of the sources value to
you here. It is fine to put your information into more than one paragraph. Several students
have asked how long the annotations should be and my answer is long enough to
adequately cover the material you must cover for each of the three sections. Usually, a
short paragraph alone is missing something. Take a look at the student samples, and
youll find some that are strong and some that are perhaps too short. I dont remember.
If you use more than one paragraph, you can pick it up here. In general remember to
follow exact MLA rules for citing the specific type of source. Most of these rules are on
OWL. Once youve completed your source citation and remember source citations
appear in alphabetical order then do your annotation and once youre done with that,
then go ahead and begin typing on the next listing.
Sampbell, Malcolm. Title of this here as a sample format for a citation of a YouTube video.
YouTube, YouTube. 15 March 2010. Web. 21 Feb 2012.
Drop a line to begin your summary, evaluation and assessment of the sources value to
you here. Note that with YouTube, its especially important to evaluate the reliability of
the source. If you cant find information about the person featured in the video or the
poster, you might not have a reliable source. If its reliable, but you arent sure of the
author of the video, just start with the Title and continue without an author listed.