Rethinking Inclusive Education: The Philosophers of Difference in Practice
Authors: Allan, Julie
Free Preview- Philosophy is put to work on inclusion
- Offers new challenges for teacher educators, researchers, student teachers and practising teachers to invent new ways of tackling the ‘problem’ of inclusion
- Offers a new kind of inclusion that is political
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The inclusion of disabled children and those with difficult behaviour is increasingly being seen as an impossible challenge and, not surprisingly, concerns are being expressed by teachers unions and researchers about teachers’ capacities, and willingness, to manage these demands. With Warnock, the so-called ‘architect’ of inclusion now pronouncing this her ‘big mistake’ and calling for a return to special schooling, inclusion appears to be under threat as never before. This book takes key ideas of the philosophers of difference – Deleuze, Foucault and Derrida - and puts them to work on inclusion. These ideas allow the task of including children to be reframed and offer, not solutions, but different ways of working which involve altering adult-child relationships –subverting, subtracting, and inventing and restructuring teacher education – recognition, rupture and repair. The propositions also include making use of the arts to challenge exclusion and to establish more inclusive practices. This is a must for teacher educators, researchers, student teachers and practising teachers concerned about the future of inclusion. It offers fresh insights and a steer towards possibilities for a more productive, and political, engagement with inclusion.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Territories of Failure
Pages 9-23
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The Repetition of Exclusion in Policy and Legislation
Pages 25-41
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Excluding Research
Pages 43-52
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Deleuze and Guattari’s Smooth Spaces
Pages 55-69
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Derrida and the (IM)Possibilities of Justice
Pages 71-83
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Rethinking Inclusive Education: The Philosophers of Difference in Practice
- Authors
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- Julie Allan
- Series Title
- Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives
- Series Volume
- 5
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-6093-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4020-6093-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-6092-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-7532-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 188
- Topics