Actively Seeking Inclusion: Pupils with Special Needs in Mainstream Schools / Edition 1

by Julie Allan

Overview

First Published in 2004. Research on special education has tended to focus on technical and professional aspects of provision and matters of placement. The voice of the pupil with special educational needs has tended to be silenced by professional discourses, reducing him or her to a passive recipient of specialist provision. This book attempts to undo some of this. This book is about 11 pupils with special needs, who were actively seeking inclusion in mainstream schools. The voices of the pupils and their mainstream peers are foregrounded and read alongside those of other interested parties—teachers, other professionals and parents—as well as the more formal discourses of special needs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750707367
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/19/1999
Series:	Studies in Inclusive Education Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Julie Allan is a lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of Stirling.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Wandering Voices and Shifting Identities 2 Foucault’s ‘box of tools’ 3 Mainstream Pupils: Inclusion Gatekeepers 4 Transgressive Practices: Shaping the Self 5 In Need of Support? Transgression and the Teacher 6 On the Record 7 Between Two Worlds 8 Gender and Sexuality 9 Inclusion as Ethical Work on Ourselves