Must Inclusion Be Special? ─ Rethinking Educational Support Within a Community of Provision
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Beyond the 'Special' Problem? examines the discord between special education and inclusive education and why this discord can only be resolved when wider inequalities within mainstream education are confronted. It calls for a shift in our approach to provision, from seeing it as a conglomeration of individualised needs to recognising it to be a conglomeration of collective needs.
The author examines the political, medical and cultural tendency of current times to focus upon the individual and contrasts this with the need to focus on context. The theoretical perspectives often associated with either special or inclusive education and the broad range of interests which depend upon their ongoing development are identified and analysed. This examination leads to a problematisation of mainstream education provision and our understanding of why social inequities emerge and how additional support can overcome these inequities.
Further chapters explore the underlying challenges which emerge from our use and understanding of the notions of special and inclusive and map out an alternative approach based upon a community of provision. This approach recognises the interconnectedness of services and the significance of context, and it encapsulates the aspiration of much international legislation for participation and inclusion for all. But it also assumes that we tend towards diffuse practices, services, policies, settings and roles, spread across provision which is variously inclusive and exclusionary. In seeking to create equitable participation for all, support needs to shift its focus from the individual to this diffuse network of contexts.
Beyond the 'Special' Problem? emerges from the research base which problematises inclusion and special education, and includes examples from many countries. It also draws upon the author’s research into pedagogy, language and policy and his experiences as a teacher and parent of a child identified with special educational needs.
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Jonathan Rix is Senior Lecturer in Inclusion, Curriculum and Learning and the Open University. He has a strong and broad interest in issues relating to learning difficulties and issues of equality and participation. He has recent publications in the fields of early intervention, intellectual access to heritage sites, the use of simplified language, special educational needs funding and pedagogy, alternative education, and the ethics of language.
He is currently leading research for the NCSE in Ireland, examining the continuum of provision internationally for children identified with special educational needs.
Advisory roles
2010 – Present: Advisor to the Individual Budgets Pilot programme and Pathfinder project Department for Education
2010 - 2011: Advisor for the Museums For Us Project at the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Washington, DC
2008-2010: Member of Royal Society of Medicine Forum of Intellectual Disabilities Council.
2008: Member of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OECD) and Development and Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) Alternative Models of Learning Expert Meeting in Bruges.
2007-present: Member of The Down Syndrome Educational Trust’s Science, Research and Practice Advisory Board
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