Professor Len Barton, Executive Director Professor Len Barton

Executive Director of IDRIS, Emeritus Professor of Inclusive Education of University of London.

  teaching  
  MA Inclusive Education

Supervising student dissertations (MA) and theses (PhD) on Inclusive Education

 
  interests  
  Disability Studies

Sociology of Education

Inclusive Education

Cross-cultural issues relating to policy and practice in terms of disability and inclusive education



 
  research  
  The development of a socio-political perspective on disability issues and education

Inclusive Education and Teacher Education.

Projects examining the development of inclusive policies and practices in schools and LEAs.

awards

2007 - Senior Scholar Award for outstanding contributions to international disability studies and the struggle for inclusive education. Disability Studies in Education. USA

editorships

Founder and editor of British Journal of Sociology of Education
Founder and editor of Disability and Society
Editor of Book Series ?Disability, Human Rights and Society. Open University Press.
Co-editor of Book Series ?Inclusive Education: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Springer Books.

        selected publications
 
  2007
Society and Education: 25 years of British Journal of Sociology of Education
Barton, L.
London, Routledge.

Policy, Experience and Change: Cross-Cultural Reflections on Inclusive Education
Barton, L., & Armstrong, F
Dordrecht Springer Books.

2006
Overcoming Disability Barriers: 18 years of Disability and Society
Barton, L.
London, Routledge.

Inclusion, Diversity and Leadership: Perspectives, Possibilities and Contradictions
Leo, E. & Barton, L.
Educational Management Administration and Leadership Vol. 34, No. 2, pp167-180.

2005
Emancipatory research and disabled people: Some observations and questions
Barton, L.
Educational Review Vol. 57, No. 3, pp 317-327

2003
Challenging Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion
Barton, L
in Heggen, K et al (Eds) Marginalization and Social Exclusion, Volda: Volda University College, pp 11-20

Engaging with Disabling Policies: Troubles and Contests in a Local Education Authority
Barton, L and Armstrong, F
Research in Education, Vol 70, pp 37-49

Inclusive Education and Teacher Education: A Basis of Hope or a Discourse of Delusion
Barton, L
London: Institute of Education

Inclusive Education: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Series)
Barton L and Rioux M (eds)
Dordrecht, Klewer Academic Publications

Inclusive Education and Teacher Education: A basis of hope or a discourse of delusion,
Barton, L.
London, Institute of Education

Engaging with disabling policies: troubles and contests in a local education authority
Barton, L. and Armstrong, F.
Research in Education, Vol. 70, pp 37-49

2002
Inclusion, Teachers and the Demands of Change: The Struggle for a more Effective Practice
Barton, L
in Armstrong, A.C. (ed), Rethinking Teacher Professionalism in the Caribbean Context, Sheffield: School of Education, University of Sheffield, pp 85-104

Inclusive Education and the Management of Change in Britain
Barton, L
Exceptionality Education Canada, vol 12, no2/3, pp 169-187

British Journal of Sociology of Education
Barton, L (ed)
(5 issues per year)

Disability and Society
Barton, L (ed)
(7 issues per year)

International Studies in the Sociology of Education
Barton, L
(3 issues per year)

Disability, Human Rights and Society (Book Series)
Barton, L
Open University Press

Disability Studies Today.
Barnes, C., Barton, L. & Oliver, M. (Eds)
Cambridge Polity Press.

Inclusive Education and the Management of Change in Britain
Barton, L.
Exceptionality Education Canada, Vol. 12, No. 2/3, pp 169-187

1999
Competition, Selection and Inclusive Education: Setting the Context
Barton, L. & Slee, R
Inclusive Education, Vol. 3 no. 1, pp. 3-12 (Special Issue).

1997
Inclusive Education: Romantic, Subversive or Realistic
Barton, L.
Inclusive Education, Vol. 1 no. 3, pp. 231-242.