Actively Seeking Inclusion: Pupils with Special Needs in Mainstream Schools [Paperback]

First Published in 2004. Research on special education has tended to focus on technical and professional aspects of provision and matters of placement. The voice of the pupil with special educational needs has tended to be silenced by professional discourses, reducing him or her to a passive recipient of specialist provision. This book attempts to undo some of this. This book is about 11 pupils with special needs, who were actively seeking inclusion in mainstream schools. The voices of the pupils and their mainstream peers are foregrounded and read alongside those of other interested partiesteachers, other professionals and parentsas well as the more formal discourses of special needs.Introduction 1 Wandering Voices and Shifting Identities 2 Foucaults box of tools 3 Mainstream Pupils: Inclusion Gatekeepers 4 Transgressive Practices: Shaping the Self 5 In Need of Support? Transgression and the Teacher 6 On the Record 7 Between Two Worlds 8 Gender and Sexuality 9 Inclusion as Ethical Work on OurselvesJulie Allan is a lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of Stirling.US? Julie Allan 1999