What is Academic Inclusion

Academic inclusion seeks to increase participation and learning in a secure and collaborative environment where all individuals are full, accepted, and valued members of their school community. This chapter will focus on some problems in advancing academic inclusion. Specifically, the author will expand on the nature and importance of critical thinking to academic inclusion and examine the limits of outcome-based instruction, the role and problem of leadership and why it matters and the problem of working definitions for diversity, equity, and inclusion and why they matter. Accordingly, the objectives of the chapter are to analyze the reasons, significance, and consequences of such limits to posit the need for a new perspective of action based on critical thinking.