Actively Seeking Inclusion: Pupils with Special Needs in Mainstream Schools (Studies in Inclusive Education) by Allan, Julie

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London: Routledge, 1999. Hardcover. Fine copy; as new.. Small quarto in pale blue glossy paper-backed boards; ix, 145 pages; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 127-141) and index. Fine copy; as new. "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 attemps to undo some of this, by featuring the accounts of eleven pupils with special needs and their mainstream peers. Julie Allan uses Foucault's 'box of tools' to analyse the pupil accounts, and the themes of the 'technologies of the self' and 'governmentality' from his work are developed in new ways."--Publisher. Chapters entitled: 1. Wandering Voices and Shifting Identities -- 2. Foucault's 'box of tools' -- 3. Mainstream Pupils: Inclusion Gatekeepers -- 4. Transgressive Practices:… Read More

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Using the accounts of mainstream pupils and pupils with SEN, the text explores the pupils' identities and experiences in relation to each other. It argues that strategies for inclusion have to take into account both mainstream and SEN p

Falmer Pr, 1998. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 145 pages. 10.00x6.50x0.50 inches.