LEAD TO INCLUDE

In 2016, the research team completed a national study, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), on the ways in which principals and vice-principals in Canada support students with special education needs in inclusive schools... This summer we are taking the findings that have resulted from our Canadian studies over the past five years and exploring similar aspects of school leadership and inclusive education in diverse global contexts. We have launched research studies in Mauritius, St. Lucia, and Haiti in addition to the work we have been doing in Ghana, Canada, and Egypt. We regularly get asked to explore new research studies in other contexts. There are different focal elements to each of these projects... These trips have stimulated new research partnerships and ideas. For example, in St. Lucia we learned that the directors of special education departments within Ministries of Education in the Caribbean have rarely been able to collaborate. As a..