Current inclusive education practices remain entrenched in deficit-oriented discourses. An
interrogation of these discourses is necessary to enact inclusion driven by diversity and …

Drawing from critical disability narratives, including disability studies works, autobiographies
and school age students' commentaries, explored is how discussions of school inclusion …

Assumptions about disability play a key role in how disabled students are treated at school.
Using a case study as a focus, Bernadette Macartney argues that every child has the right to …

Inclusive education scholarship and practice could be described as being resistant to the
first and second waves of disability studies in education (DSE). In the third wave of DSE …

Drawing on research with parents and teachers, this paper addresses issues of values and
metatheory as central to the construction and analysis of inclusive education and disability …

Problematic, I would suggest, is that the government's inclusion strategy document (DfES,
2004) seemingly indicates they believe that the simple placement of children with disabilities …

The intention of this paper is to inhabit a mode of exploration that foregrounds the hopeful
possibility that teaching and learning might be otherwise than the continued perpetuation of …

Education systems worldwide will only successfully serve the needs of people with disability
when we inclusively examine and address disabling issues that currently exist at school …

This thesis combines ideas from disability studies and inclusive education debates, as well
as critiques of mainstream schooling from critical pedagogy (eg Freire, 1972a; McLaren …

Many volumes have been written on inclusive and special education, mostly by non-
disabled people working in the field. Although the voice of disabled people is generally …