Spaced Out: Policy, Difference and the Challenge of Inclusive Education: 1 (Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives, 1) - Softcover

Armstrong, F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402012632 ISBN 13: 9781402012631

Publisher: Springer, 2003

Synopsis

This is an extremely important book containing a wealth of ideas and insights and raising important questions for discussion and further exploration. In a lucid and cogently argued analysis, the author both challenges dominant ideas and interp- tations and provides some alternative innovatory perspectives. These include, the making and meaning of policy; the varied and complex ways in which inclusion and exclusion can be understood; the nature and function of categorisation, labelling and discursive practices within official discourse and procedures and the position and relationship between space, place and identities in relation to the experience of marginalized people including disabled children and young people. Drawing on concepts and insights from social and cultural geography Armstrong is able to seriously examine and discuss daily activities within institutional and social settings in England and France from several different angles. In sensitive, thoughtful and imaginative ways the micro-politics of social settings and encounters are explored through a process of deconstruction and reconstruction. Subtle, overt and contradictory features of interactions are carefully identified and critically discussed. This covers how meanings, decisions and outcomes of such encounters are developed, challenged and changed. Both in relation to discussions of the history of special education and her cri- cal self-reflections on the research process, the author challenges homogeneous conceptions and sanitized accounts of what, she argues, is an essentially messy process. It is the unevenness, discontinuities and contradictions of social conditions and relations that are depicted in insightful and disturbing ways.

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From the reviews:

"Felicity Armstrong ??? provides, in her book, an interesting review of several issues that must be considered when talking about inclusion, such as policy and the construction and placing of the disabled child as ???other???, in case of special schools. ??? would be a valuable addition to the library of anyone involved in education, from trainee teachers to academics in the field." (Alessandra Iantaffi, Teachers and Teaching, Vol. 10 (6), 2004)

From the reviews:

"Felicity Armstrong ??? provides, in her book, an interesting review of several issues that must be considered when talking about inclusion, such as policy and the construction and placing of the disabled child as ???other???, in case of special schools. ??? would be a valuable addition to the library of anyone involved in education, from trainee teachers to academics in the field." (Alessandra Iantaffi, Teachers and Teaching, Vol. 10 (6), 2004)

From the reviews:

"Felicity Armstrong ? provides, in her book, an interesting review of several issues that must be considered when talking about inclusion, such as policy and the construction and placing of the disabled child as ?other?, in case of special schools. ? would be a valuable addition to the library of anyone involved in education, from trainee teachers to academics in the field." (Alessandra Iantaffi, Teachers and Teaching, Vol. 10 (6), 2004)

From the reviews:

"Felicity Armstrong a ] provides, in her book, an interesting review of several issues that must be considered when talking about inclusion, such as policy and the construction and placing of the disabled child as a ~othera (TM), in case of special schools. a ] would be a valuable addition to the library of anyone involved in education, from trainee teachers to academics in the field." (Alessandra Iantaffi, Teachers and Teaching, Vol. 10 (6), 2004)

From the reviews:

"Felicity Armstrong ... provides, in her book, an interesting review of several issues that must be considered when talking about inclusion, such as policy and the construction and placing of the disabled child as 'other', in case of special schools. ... would be a valuable addition to the library of anyone involved in education, from trainee teachers to academics in the field." (Alessandra Iantaffi, Teachers and Teaching, Vol. 10 (6), 2004)

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402012632
• ISBN 13: 9781402012631
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205