Spaced out : policy, difference, and the challenge of inclusive education / by Felicity Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Felicity.

Series:

Inclusive education--cross cultural perspectives ; v. 1.

Inclusive education--cross cultural perspectives ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inclusive education--Cross-cultural studies.

Inclusive education.

Education and state--Cross-cultural studies.

Education and state.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 193 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

This book is for teachers and academic researchers in a range of disciplines. In addition, it would be highly suitable for use by doctoral research students, EdD students and MA students in Education, History, Sociology, Policy Studies, Social and Cultural Geography and Comparative education.

Spaced Out: Policy, Difference and the Challenge of Inclusive Education makes an original contribution to understanding the varied and complex ways inclusion and exclusion can be understood. Through particular projects in social settings in England and France, Armstrong provides a lucid, coherent analysis into the nature of categorization, labeling and discursive practices within official discourse and procedures as well as the positional relationships between space, place and identities in relation to the experience of marginalized people including disabled pupils and young people.

Contents:

1 Researching the Practices and Processes of Policy Making 1

Inclusion: principles, discourses and practices 2

Policy, space and place 5

2 Space, Place and Policy Making: Developing a Theoretical Framework 9

Space, discourse and values 12

Mobility, space and social practice 17

Placing and spacing the other 20

3 Process, Practice and Emotion: Researching Policy and Space within a Cross-cultural Framework 29

Research practices in different national contexts 33

The research notebooks 36

Multiple methodologies and policy research 39

Finding a cross-cultural perspective 47

Discourse, the researcher and the field 49

4 The History of Special Education: Humanitarian Rationality or 'Wild Profusion of Entangled Events'? 54

Writing history 55

Education and the workhouse 56

'Traditional history' and 'effective history' 58

History, education and disability in England and France 60

A critique of 'traditional history' 68

Identity creation and the power of labelling 72

5 Space, Place and Exclusion: Constructing Alternative Histories 74

The space of social reproduction 74

Place, identity and power 81

6 Four Settings: Dividing Spaces 90

The English research setting 92

France 97

7 Discourse, Power and Policy Making: Uncovering the Politics of Social Practice in England 111

Policy as discourse 113

The challenge of 'analysis' 115

Freelands: naming and placing from the inside 116

Naming and placing: the struggle for space 123

8 Landscapes of Naming and Placing: Structures and Practices of Selection and Sorting in France 144

Interpreting 'the foreign' 145

Structures and procedures: 'making comparisons' 146

Management and control of specialist provision 147

The role of professionals as brokers in processes and Procedures of exclusion and inclusion 150

The Commissions and special education 151

The practices of removal 152

Specialized structures inside the education system 153

Integration as exclusion 157

'Patient' or 'pupil'? The Institut Medico-Professionnel 158

9 Conclusion: Space, Place and the Production of the Other 161

Theories of space and place 162

No conclusion 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-179) and index.

ISBN:

1402012616

1402012632

OCLC:

51983342