Actively Seeking Inclusion: Pupils With Special Needs in Mainstream Schools

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: Shaping the Self -- 5. In Need of Support? Transgression and the Teacher -- 6. On the Record -- 7. Between Two Worlds -- 8. Gender and Sexuality -- 9. Inclusion as Ethical Work on Ourselves. Education. Mainstreaming in education -- Scotland -- Case studies. Inclusive education -- Scotland -- Case studies. Students with disabilities -- Scotland -- Case studies. Inclusive education. Mainstreaming in education. Students with disabilities. Inclusief onderwijs. Differentiatie (onderwijs) Integrative Schule.