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Interviews consisted of two teachers and an educational assistant from one Northern Ontario classroom while participant observation was conducted for a period of seven weeks. Drawing from the framework of loose coupling and inhabited institution, this study finds that teachers actively negotiate policy in the face of classroom reality by drawing upon personal and social resources. Drawing from their previous experiences and some of their educational training they create, and implement strategies in dealing with learning diversity. Teachers felt enthusiastic about inclusion but their ideas ranged as to what it looked like; on top of their creativity in strategy making they also expressed the need for more resources and support to ensure the success of inclusion within their classrooms.  \nKeywords: inclusion, inhabited institutions, loose coupling, learning disabilities  \nChristina DeRoche is currently a PhD Candidate at McMaster University studying how children with developmental coordination disorder experience both classroom and outside activities and their peer relationships. She currently works part-time at the North Bay Regional Health Centre as a research assistant focusing on health informatics, mental health of both adults and children, and practitioner experiences. Her current research interests include special education and mental health initiatives within the education. She received her teaching degree from Nipissing University in 2004 and is an active member of the Ontario College of Teachers.  \nE-mail: [christinadip@gmail.com](christinadip@gmail.com)  \nBrock Education Volume 23, No. 1, Fall 2013, pp. 77  \nC. DeRoche Inclusion and Inhabited Institutions  \nLoose Coupling and Inhabited Institutions: Inclusion Policy and Teacher Strategies  \nIn education, there are often major differences between the perspectives of educational leaders, those who develop policy, and the teachers who implement them in classrooms and schools (Darling-Hammond & Bransford, 2005) . This is evident in the ways in which policy-makers and teachers have understood the goals of inclusive education and how to apply them in Canadian and American contexts (for examples see Porter & Richler, 1991; Stainback & Stainback, 1996) . Strategies proposed for the implementation of this policy initiative are varied and include differentiated and direct instruction, universal design for learning, and altering expectations. Although research on educator practices and strategies within the inclusive elementary classroom has been extensive, research fails to fully capture how teachers grasp the policies handed down to them from administration (Labaree, 2010) and the process by which teachers make meaning from such policies(Laurin-Bowie, 2009) .  \nInclusion can have many meanings, conceptions, and is practiced in varying ways by teachers (Laurin-Bowie, 2009; Lloyd, 2002). For example, the Ontario Ministry level means “not only the practice of placing students with special needs in the regular classroom but ensuring that teachers assist every student to prepare for the highest degree of independence possible”(Ontario Ministry of Education, 2005, p. 2) . However, interviews with teachers in this project yielded two different responses including “making it possible for kids who have exceptionalities to function within the classroom” (Mrs. M) versus having “people in a classroom, some of which learn differently from others…it means that everybody’s needs are met within the classroom”(Mrs. C) Inclusion can also mean various things at various levels of implementation; for example, administration at both provincial and board level can feel it encompasses political ide","cbCaitf5db0EILa2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitf5db0EILa2","pdf",184044,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Inclusion policy implementation and teacher perspectives\n## Meanings of inclusion and related frameworks\n# Research questions and study approach\n# Loose Coupling to Inhabited Institutions\n## Policy implementation, myths, and institutional order","[{\"question\":\"What research methods does the study use to examine inclusion policy in classrooms?\",\"answer\":\"The study uses interviews and participant observation. 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