1st Edition

Actively Seeking Inclusion Pupils with Special Needs in Mainstream Schools

By Julie Allan Copyright 1999
160 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

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