Full Description
The Knowledge of Inclusive Education is a paradigm-shifting exploration of inclusive education as a dynamic knowledge practice. The knowledge that underpins the practice is understood through the metaphor of an ecology, with valuable contributions from educators, researchers, parents, students, policymakers, and international organisations.
By examining the knowledge of policy, research, teacher education, and activism, Elizabeth Walton constructs a future for inclusive education that affirms different material-discursive places, inquiry, and possibility and replaces traditional research hierarchies with a life-affirming ecology. Readers will gain a novel perspective on the knowledge/s of inclusive education across multiple interacting domains.
With theoretical resources ranging from the work of Lorraine Code and Basil Bernstein to concepts from Legitimation Code Theory, Decolonial theory, and Posthumanism, this book offers a unique and innovative approach to the multiple perspectives and knowledges that inform inclusive education policy and practice. Its conceptual and empirical research draws from several international contexts, ensuring that The Knowledge of Inclusive Education will be of interest to educators, scholars, and advocates of inclusive education worldwide and valued by those willing to embrace collaborative new directions in inclusive teaching, learning, and research.
Contents
Chapter 1: Inclusive education: A knowledge practice based on an ecology of knowledges
Chapter 2: Types, typologies and triads: Knowledge for inclusive teaching
Chapter 3: "That's where the action is": Teacher educators in the inclusive education knowledge ecology
Chapter 4: Teachers as collective inclusive education knowledge bricoleurs
Chapter 5: "Think of what you could learn": Parent knowledge in the inclusive education knowledge ecology
Chapter 6: "They don't understand what we are going through": The value of student voice in the inclusive education knowledge ecology
Chapter 7: Topics, trends and trajectories: Academic knowledge in the inclusive education knowledge ecology
Chapter 8: Toolkits and guideline documents: Grey literature in the inclusive education knowledge ecology
Chapter 9: Policy knowledge-making in the inclusive education knowledge ecology
Chapter 10: A decolonial and ecological undoing and redoing of inclusive education knowledge
