1st Edition
Inclusion, Exclusion, and Ableism among Disabled People within Physical Education Advancing Conceptual Foundations
1. Introduction
2. Ableism in Physical Education
3. Inclusion as (Inter)subjective Experiences
4. Exclusion as Internalized Ableism and Psycho-emotional Disablement
5. Understanding Inclusion Porn within Physical Education
6. Summary and Conclusions
Biography
Justin A. Haegele is the Colgate Darden Endowed Professor, and Director of the Center of Movement, Health, & Disability, in the Department of Human Movement Studies and Special Education at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia). Broadly defined, his research focuses within the interdisciplinary field of adapted physical activity, with a primary interest in examining how disabled persons experience physical activity participation, including in school-based physical education. He is a Fellow with the International Federation of Adapted Physical activity, the Research Council of SHAPE, and the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education. He is the past-president of the North American Federation of Adapted Physical Activity, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly.
Anthony J. Maher is Director of Research and Professor of Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion in the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University (Leeds, UK). Anthony’s research, consultancy, and teaching expertise relate to centring the experiences and amplifying the voices of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). This is part of his commitment to trying to empower pupils with SEND, placing them at the centre of decisions that impact their lives, and recognising that they have expert knowledge because of their lived, embodied experiences. Anthony is also committed to supporting key stakeholders in schools such as teachers, special educational needs coordinators, learning support assistants, educational psychologists, and senior leaders to provide valuable and meaningful experiences of education for pupils with SEND.
