1st Edition
Radical Inclusive Education Disability, teaching and struggles for liberation
Part 1 Setting the scene: Politicising education and disability and exploring the need for radical inclusive pedagogy Introduction 1. Understanding disability as a political phenomenon and stressing the need for a dis-ability perspective 2. Reading schools through a dis-ability perspective: Arguing for the need to develop radical inclusive pedagogy 3. The Disabled People’s Movement as a site of radical inclusive pedagogy: exploring critical pedagogy and new social movements Part 2 – envisaging radical inclusive pedagogy: knowledge, relationships and power 4. Rethinking knowledge for radical inclusive pedagogy: supporting access and conscientization 5. Relations of belonging: identity, difference and the ethics of care 6. Changing power relations in education: developing relational autonomy and valuing resistance
Biography
Anat Greenstein is a lecturer in Learning Disability Studies at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
This book is an invitation to question current educational practices but to do so from the unique space of an affirmative assurance that disability matters. From the foundational assurance that disability is essential to our being-in-the-world, Anat Greenstein raises the question -- What does inclusion mean? Readers are invited, again and again, to imagine an education that proceeds with an affirmation of difference and its belonging. Without recipes for special practices, Radical Inclusive Education invites a major rethinking of what education is for as a way to awaken our desire to re-imagine the meaning of education itself. Radical Inclusive Education is essential reading for cultivating a commitment to education as learning how to be together alongside life affirming ways of understanding this. - Tanya Titchkosky, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada
