Overview
- is unique for its theoretical and empirical approach to engaging with inclusive
- education and social justice in Vietnam, and for its engagement with disability
- in the global South
- The Journey to Inclusion is a unique engagement with the challenges and promises of inclusion for disabled people in the twenty-first century through its socio-historical analyses of policy, power, inclusion and exclusion within and beyond educational spheres
- This book represents an immense piece of scholarship, but is one which reads so eloquently and evocatively; in engaging Titchkoskys (2011) politics of wonder (p. 130), Nguyen invites us to restory, unsettle some of our taken for granted understandings and re-present disability, inclusion and exclusion in new and unforeseen ways"" from Allans foreword
Part of the book series: Studies in Inclusive Education (STUIE)
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About this book
This book offers insight on the politics of inclusion in Vietnam through a Foucauldian and post-colonial perspective on disability and education. Drawing on a socio-historical analysis of the inclusion of disabled people in Vietnam in the twenty-first century, the book guides readers through a ‘history of the present.’ By reflecting on the treatment of disabled people in Vietnamese social history, the book argues that this journey to inclusion calls for critical reflections on the challenges and possibilities for policies to transform exclusion for disabled people. The book unveils the problematics of social and educational institutions in governing disability and difference through a critical reflection on discourses and power in the global and local juncture, in relation to its engagement with disability in the global South. The intersection between the global politics ofdisability rights and development and the local politics of inclusion in Vietnam shapes the cultural politics of education. The ways inclusive education is historically constructed, within this socio-historical condition, reflects the challenges of inclusive thought and action for transforming injustice.
Going beyond ‘deconstructive politics,’ The Journey to Inclusion argues for a re-positioning of the relationships between the global North and South as an alternative approach to inclusion. It suggests that critical research must construct a politics of engagement with subjugated voices and representations in transnational, national, and local contexts. A reflexive, critical, and inclusive dialogue that engages with Southern knowledge offers a political platform for reframing justice in the twenty-first century.
Authors and Affiliations
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York University & Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada
Xuan Thuy Nguyen
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Journey to Inclusion
Authors: Xuan Thuy Nguyen
Series Title: Studies in Inclusive Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-304-9
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-304-9Published: 22 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 200
Topics: Education, general