ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to challenge your thinking about teaching and learning in general as well as in relation to special educational needs. It suggests paths to explore and issues to consider by taking a number of ideas and theories and exploring how these may influence the way in which we set about teaching our classes. There are a nwnber of excellent texts, some of which are referred to in this book, which are devoted to teaching and learning theory and which explore many more issues and in far greater depth. The main aim of this chapter is to encourage you to think about a particularly difficult and emotive question: 'Do all children who are failing at school have SEN, or might, in some cases, approaches to teaching and learning exacerbate their difficulties or discriminate against some learning styles?'
