Margo Horne

Assistant Professor, Assistant Director of Teacher Education Programs

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Teaching Inclusive Education through Life Story Inquiry 

Margo Horne is a highly accomplished individual with a diverse range of experiences in the field of education. She is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of Programming and currently a Trustee and former Chair of the Board at the Halton District School Board. Her teaching career began as a classroom teacher in both mainstream and self-contained settings.  She has held various teaching and leadership positions in educational institutions in Canada, the UK, and Japan, including roles such as a consultant, lecturer, vice principal, and head of primary departments.

Her research endeavours include projects in Canada, the United States, the UK and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. These projects focus on educational and community inclusion, empowering both students and teachers to engage in opportunities for positive change.

Research Interests and Activities

  • Inclusive Education- looking at how we include students in classrooms and beyond using physical, academic and social opportunities
  • Assessment- looking at how to create meaningful, authentic assessment strategies to support all learners
  • Differentiated Instruction- How can/do teachers use DI for creating inclusive classrooms?

Research Project Funding

  • Life Stories: an inquiry into the lives of individuals with disabilities (April 2021-January 2024) Horne- Shuttleworth, M. Somma, M., Wlodarczyk, K – Co-Investigator/ Co-Author
  • St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Human Development Service Delivery Project: Consultancy for in-service Special Education Teacher Training (August 2021- June 2022), Bennett, S., Shuttleworth, M., Somma, M., Freer, J. – Collaborator
  • Montessori School of Sudbury Inclusion Project (2019-2021) Somma, M, Harwood D., Bennett, S., Examining and Developing Inclusive Education Practices in a Montessori School:Findings for the Montessori School of Sudbury. Brock University, Faculty of Education, Inclusive Education Canada.- Research Assistant
  • AVMDSB Inclusion Coaching Project Bennett, S., Gallagher, T., Somma, M., Shuttleworth, M., White, R. (2014-2018). Final report of findings:  Avon Maitland District School Board.  Brock University, Faculty of Education.- Collaborator

Recent Publications

Horne-Shuttleworth, M., Somma, M. Wlodarczyk, K. (2024). Teaching Inclusive Education Through Life Story Inquiry. Palgrave Macmillan.

Somma, M., Freer, J., Shuttleworth, M., & Bennett, S. (2024). Inclusive change St. Vincent and the Grenadines: A collaborative autoethnography. Exceptionality Education International, 34(1).

 Bennett, S., Shuttleworth, M., Somma, M., Freer, J., Rusnell, M., Miklas, E., & Devonish, D. (2023). Building Capacities for Inclusive Education in St. Vincent and the Grenadines: A country-wide initiative. Final Report. Brock University, Brock International for The World Bank.

Freer, J., Bennett, S., Shuttleworth, M., Somma, M. (2023). Building Capacities for Inclusive Education in St. Vincent and the Grenadines: A country-wide initiative. Interim Report. Brock University, Brock International for The World Bank.

Shuttleworth, M., Somma, M., Freer, J., Bennett, S. (2022). Building Capacities for Inclusive Education in St. Vincent and the Grenadines: A country-wide initiative. Situational Analysis. Brock University, Brock International for The World Bank.

Shuttleworth, M., Somma M., Wlodarczyk (2021) Life Stories: an inquiry into the lives of individuals with disabilities and their experiences with education and mental health. Ontario CEC Annual Special Education Poster Presentation 

Bennett, S., Gallagher, T., Somma, M., Shuttleworth, M., Scibetta, L. & Galambos, L. (invited) Professional Development Day.  Sudbury Catholic District School Board.  March 2021.

Bennett, S., Gallagher, T., Somma, M., Shuttleworth, M., White, R. (2018). Final report of findings:  Avon Maitland District School Board.  Brock University, Faculty of Education.

Bennett, S., Gallagher, T., Shuttleworth, M., Somma, M., & White, R. (2017). Teen dreams: Voices of students with intellectual disabilities. Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 23(1), 64-75.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1plL3QGz6hgpGefFXi2ikyJIYc3QU4oWZ/view?usp=sharing

Shuttleworth, M. (2013) Inclusion is…..: musing and conversations on the meaning of inclusion in Azzopardi, A. (ed.) Youth: Responding to Lives, An International Reader, Sense. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-6209-431-4_8

 Shuttleworth, M. (2012) Including the Education of Educators in Azzopardi, A. (ed.) Roots to inclusive education – A question of well-being. Germany: VDM Verlag, 2010. https://www.bookdepository.com/Roots-Inclusive-Education-Azzopardi-Andrew/9783659192814?ref=grid-view&qid=1629292595461&sr=1-6 

Shuttleworth, M., Somma, M., & Freer, J. (accepted). Reflections and learnings from three years of support for inclusive education in one country in the Caribbean. Research Session presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Conference. Montreal, Quebec.

Shuttleworth, M., Somma, M., Freer, J., & Bennett, S. (2024). Supporting the transition toward  inclusion in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Research Session presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Bennett, S., Shuttleworth, M., Somma, M., Freer, J. (2023). Building Capacities for Inclusive Education in St. Vincent and the Grenadines: A country-wide initiative. Situational Analysis. Brock University, Brock International for The World Bank.

Shuttleworth, M., Somma, M., Bennett, S., & Freer, J. (2022). Transitioning to inclusion: One country’s journey. Poster Presentation presented at the 66th Annual Ontario Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Special Education Conference, Toronto, ON

Courses Taught

  • EDBE 8P35/ 8Y03- Socio/Emotional Development and the Exceptional Learner
  • EDBE 8P03/ 8P72 Cognition, Development and the Exceptional Learner
  • EDBE 8Y42/ 8Y05- Programming for Inclusive Classrooms
  • EDBE 8P16/ 8Y01 Student Assessment, Practice & Policy Primary/Junior/Intermediate
  • EDBE 8P71 Student Assessment, Practice and Policy (Intermediate/Senior)
  • EDUC 8P50 Foundations of Educational Psychology
  • EDBE 8F01 Teaching in the Ontario Context
  • EDBE 8P02- Integrating Teaching, Learning and Assessment Primary/Junior/Intermediate
  • EDBE 8P40 Professional Collaborative Communities Primary/Junior/Intermediate
  • EDBE 8P41 Practicum for Professional Collaborative Communities I Primary/Junior/Intermediate
  • EDBE 8P47 Practicum for Professional Collaborative Communities II Primary/Junior/Intermediate
  • ADED 1P31- Learning for Success