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Inclusive education faces a critical challenge rooted in an outdated paradigm that treats students as fixer-upper projects rather than recognizing their holistic needs. The prevalent toolbox approach, governed by frameworks like MTSS and RTI, tends to prioritize immediate academic gains, neglecting the intricate tapestry of students' identities, cultural nuances, and unique strengths. This myopic strategy fails to foster sustained growth and well-being, undermining the true potential of inclusive education. Addressing this pervasive issue, Decolonizing Inclusive Education: Centering Heartwork, Care, and Listening , provides a groundbreaking solution. By shifting the focus to heartwork, care, and listening, the book pioneers a decolonizing praxis in inclusive education. It challenges the prevailing tool-centric model and advocates for an approach that embraces the diverse identities, funds of knowledge, and cultural understandings of students. The book delves into topics such as classroom stories, engaging families, funds of knowledge, and decentering whiteness, offering a comprehensive guide to transform inclusive education into a space that not only acknowledges but celebrates the holistic well-being and growth of every student.

Erin Keith (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX). Her teaching and research focuses on inclusion, EDIIADB literacy related to inclusive education, equity-based praxis, and decolonizing pedagogies that center heartwork, ethics of care, and listening. Erin is an Ontario Certified Teacher with extensive work supporting students with diverse and complex needs through an empathetic, culturally-responsive, strength-based lens that honours and engages families as partners in learning, belonging, and flourishing. Erin’s reflexive research is rooted in decolonizing methodologies inspired and guided by many Indigenous, Black, and racialized scholars whose rich knowledge guides and grows her own cultural humility, (un)learning, and renewed understanding of educational transformation.