1st Edition

Space, Education, and Inclusion Interdisciplinary Approaches

Edited By Georg Rißler, Andreas Köpfer, Tobias Buchner Copyright 2024
212 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This timely, edited volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on space and spatiality in inclusive education discourses. With research from an international range of scholars, the book explores the intersections, boundaries, and intermediary spaces of inclusion and exclusion within educational contexts. It advances thinking in inclusive education research and links discourses of the... Read more

1. Space, Education, and Inclusion: An Introduction to the Volume

Georg Rißler, Andreas Köpfer and Tobias Buchner

2. Exploring Dimensions of Access Within Restrictive Spaces of Schooling

Katie Scott Newhouse and Srikala Naraian 

3. From Excluding Schools to Excluding Spaces: Spatial and Postcolonial Reflections on Inclusive Education in Africa

Amani Karisa, Benedict Khumalo, Joachim Nyoni, Kofi Nseibo, and Judith McKenzie 

4. Evaluating Education Policies Through a Spatial Lens: Uncovering the Ability-Space-Regimes of Austrian New Middle Schools

Tobias Buchner and Flora Petrik

5. Inclusive Research, In-/Exclusion and Ethics: After the Spatial Turn(s) 

Melanie Nind

6. Inclusion, Exclusion, and the Spaces of Practices

Jürgen Budde, Georg Rißler and Theodore Schatzki

7. The Education MarketSpace

Federico R. Waitoller 

8. Revisiting Kracauer’s Perspectives on Space and Inclusion/Exclusion

Andreas Köpfer

9. Digital Learning: Navigating Inclusive/Exclusive Spaces Through Open Educational Practice

Michelle Harrison

10. Inclusion and Exclusion in Classroom Practices: Empirical Analyses of Conjunctive Spaces of Experience in Secondary Schools

Tanja Sturm, Benjamin Wagener, and Monika Wagner-Willi 

11. Learning Spaces at the Intersections of Families and Preschools

Hanna Ragnarsdóttir

12. Teaching When Students Are Absent: A Study on the Relationship Between Space and Inclusion Based on the Covid Crisis

Andrea Bossen and Georg Breidenstein

Afterword

Georg Rißler, Andreas Köpfer and Tobias Buchner

Biography

Georg Rißler is affiliated with the Centre for Childhood in Education and Society at the University of Teacher Education in Zurich. His research focuses on practice theory, space and spatiality, inequality, common worlds and ethnography.

Andreas Köpfer is Professor for Research in Inclusive Education at the University of Education Freiburg, Germany. His research focuses on international comparative perspectives in inclusive education, and social and spatial theories regarding dis-abilities and disadvantages.

Tobias Buchner is a Professor at the Department of Inclusive Education at the University Teacher College, Upper Austria. His research focuses on Inclusive Education, Education and Space, Dis/ability Studies in Education, and Ableism in the Educational System.