Spaced Out: Policy, Difference and the Challenge of Inclusive Education

• Main Author: Armstrong, Felicity. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
• Series: Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives ; 1
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; International and Comparative Education.; Sociology of Education.; Education, general.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

This is an extremely important book containing a wealth of ideas and insights and raising important questions for discussion and further exploration. In a lucid and cogently argued analysis, the author both challenges dominant ideas and interp- tations and provides some alternative innovatory perspe...

Table of Contents:

• Researching the Practices and Processes of Policy Making
• Space, Place and Policy Making: Developing a Theoretical Framework
• Process, Practice and Emotion: Researching Policy and Space within a Cross-Cultural Framework
• The History of Special Education: Humanitarian Rationality or Ớ<U+00dc>Wild Profusion of Entangled EventsỚ"?
• Space, Place and Exclusion: Constructing Alternative Histories
• Four Settings: Dividing Spaces
• Discourse, Power and Policy Making: Uncovering the Politics of Social Practice in England
• Landscapes of Naming and Placing: Structures and Practices of Selection and Sorting in France
• Conclusion: Space, Place and the Production of the Other.