Excluding the included: A reconsideration of inclusive education
Open Access
- 1 July 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in International Studies in Sociology of Education
- Vol. 11 (2), 173-192
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09620210100200073
Abstract
This article examines how the development of inclusive education policies has been constrained by the adhesion of traditional regular and special education imperatives. The fragmentation of educational policy-making presses us towards exclusion; and the protection of professional interests reinforces individual pathologies and creates further exclusionary pressures. The authors contend that inclusive education is not a linear progression from 'special educational needs' and we must endeavour to understand the very different nature of these knowledge bases. Deconstruction is presented as a way of exposing exclusion as it is inscribed within inclusive education policies. The article ends with a series of openings for dialogue about inclusion which address the relationship between ideas and politics; a new politics of research; envisioning forms of schooling which eschew the modernist blueprint; reflexivity; and the teaching of inclusion.Keywords
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