Description
Book SynopsisInside the Inclusive' Childhood Classroom: The Power of the Normal' offers a critique of current practices and alternative view of inclusion. The rich data created inside three classrooms will challenge those who work in the field, as the children and their performances, previously overlooked, are foreground. Although at times confronting, it is ultimately invaluable reading for classroom teachers, students, academics, and researchers as well as anyone who desires to deepen their understanding of inclusive processes. The inclusion of children with diagnosed special needs in mainstream early childhood classrooms is a policy and practice that has gained universal support in recent decades. Exploring ways to include the diagnosed child has been of interest to inclusive research. Adopting a poststructural perspective, this book interrupts taken for granted assumptions about inclusive processes in the classroom. Attention is drawn to the role played by
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements – Introduction: Questioning My ‘Truth’ about Inclusion – Troubling Inclusion: Policy and Practice – Doing Poststructural Ethnography Inside the ‘Inclusive’ Classroom – Exploring the Production, Reproduction and Maintenance of the ‘Normal’ – Exploring the Role of Non-Human Actors in the Production and Maintenance of the ‘Normal’ – Disrupting Tolerance as a Practice – Nuanced Silences and Their Effects – Fear, Separation and Asylum-Like Practices – Rethinking ‘Inclusive’ Practice: Shifting the Focus – Index.
