Reimagining Inclusive Education for Marginalized Students: Voices, Policies, and Practices - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798337363165

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2026

Synopsis

Inclusive education has long been framed as the integration of marginalized students into existing systems, yet this perspective often overlooks deeper structural inequities. Increasingly, there is a need to rethink inclusion as a transformative process that centers justice, belonging, and the full diversity of student experiences. By foregrounding the voices of those historically excluded or misrepresented, education can move beyond policy intentions toward more meaningful and responsive practice. Such an approach calls for a critical reexamination of how schools support, engage, and value all learners within evolving social and cultural contexts. Reimagining Inclusive Education for Marginalized Students: Voices, Policies, and Practices moves beyond policy rhetoric to focus on inclusion as a lived, transformative practice. Centering the voices of marginalized students, including those with disabilities and those from diverse cultural, linguistic, and gender identities, it positions their experiences as essential to rethinking and reshaping education. Covering topics such as colonial and post-colonial language legislation, the new wave of educational activism, and systemic transformation, this book is an excellent academic resource for graduate and doctoral students, educators, school leaders, advocacy groups, policymakers, and more.

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About the Authors

Nthabiseng Istorina Mahetlana is a Lecturer in the Department of Inclusive Education at the University of South Africa. She worked in the Department of Education for more than 15 years. Her specialisation is in Inclusive Education. Her research interests are inclusive education, student support and reading. Dr Mahetlana is an active member of the scholarship projects that are engaged in the department.

Marubini Christinah Sadiki is a Senior lecture in the department of inclusive education University of South Africa. She completed a PhD in Disability Studies in 2015 from the University of Venda. She has published several peer reviewed articles and book chapters mostly on parenting a child with disability and inclusive education. Dr Sadiki is a passionate advocate and prominent disability human rights activist, her interdisciplinary areas focused on the complex lived experiences include parenting a child with disability, persons with disabilities, inclusive education, disability policy and legislation in areas of human rights and theories of social justice. Dr Sadiki writes on different topics which focus is promotion of democracy and human rights of parents of children with disability and persons with disabilities. She aims to improve the quality of life and level of community integration for the realization of the rights of persons with disabilities. She is engaged in various collaborative disability research forums and networks at both African and international levels disabilities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798337363165
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 532
• Editor: Mahetlana Nthabiseng Istorina, Sadiki Marubini Christinah