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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Spaced Out: Policy, Difference and the Challenge of Inclusive Education
  name:
    name part: Armstrong, Felicity.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 193 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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 perspectives. These include, the making and meaning of policy; the varied and complex ways in which inclusion and exclusion can be understood; the nature and function of categorisation, labelling and discursive practices within official discourse and procedures and the position and relationship between space, place and identities in relation to the experience of marginalized people including disabled children and young people. Drawing on concepts and insights from social and cultural geography Armstrong is able to seriously examine and discuss daily activities within institutional and social settings in England and France from several different angles. In sensitive, thoughtful and imaginative ways the micro-politics of social settings and encounters are explored through a process of deconstruction and reconstruction. Subtle, overt and contradictory features of interactions are carefully identified and critically discussed. This covers how meanings, decisions and outcomes of such encounters are developed, challenged and changed. Both in relation to discussions of the history of special education and her cri- cal self-reflections on the research process, the author challenges homogeneous conceptions and sanitized accounts of what, she argues, is an essentially messy process. It is the unevenness, discontinuities and contradictions of social conditions and relations that are depicted in insightful and disturbing ways.
  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 ‘Wild Profusion of Entangled Events’? -- 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.
  note: by Felicity Armstrong.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: International education
  subject:
    topic: Comparative education
  subject:
    topic: Educational sociology
  subject:
    topic: Education and sociology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Educational
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: International and Comparative Education
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Education
  subject:
    topic: Education, general
  classification: LB43
  classification: 370.116
  classification: 370.9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives ; 1
  identifier: 9780306481642
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48164-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204161345.0
    record identifier: 978-0-306-48164-2