Radical Inclusive Education

Radical Inclusive Education draws on work in disability studies, critical psychology and critical pedagogy to challenge current educational policies and practices, particularly those which address disabled students and students with special educational needs (SEN). In doing so it aims to offer alternative practices and values that are consistent with the struggle for a just and inclusive society for all.

Part 1 Setting the scene: Politicising education and disability and exploring the need for radical inclusive pedagogy Introduction 1. Understanding disability as a political phenomenon and stressing the need for a dis-ability perspective 2. Reading schools through a dis-ability perspective: Arguing for the need to develop radical inclusive pedagogy 3. The Disabled People's Movement as a site of radical inclusive pedagogy: exploring critical pedagogy and new social movements Part 2 - envisaging radical inclusive pedagogy: knowledge, relationships and power 4. Rethinking knowledge for radical inclusive pedagogy: supporting access and conscientization 5. Relations of belonging: identity, difference and the ethics of care 6. Changing power relations in education: developing relational autonomy and valuing resistance