The Future of Inclusive Education

This book addresses the tensions of existing theories and practices of inclusive education from an international perspective. Adopting Disability Critical Race Theory in Education (DisCrit) and Critical Disability Studies (CDS), the authors expose how race neutral knowledge characterizes inclusive education and exhorts readers to consider how intersectional perspectives provide more complex and nuanced understandings about ways in which racism and ableism simultaneously circulate as intersecting oppressions in schools and societies and across geographical borders. The authors begin by engaging in a critical analysis of the genesis of inclusive education before exploring how existing policies and practices of inclusive education in the global North evade the collusive nature of oppressions faced by minoritized students with disabilities and are uncritically transferred into the global South. Ultimately, the book encourages readers to reconceptualize inclusive education and move towards developing and sustaining transformative notions of global justice.

Adopts a reflexive approach to produce praxis of inclusive education in the US and globally Builds on the work of scholars committed to equity, inclusion, and culturally sustaining pedagogies in education Employs DisCrit as the theoretical framework to redefine inclusive education policies

Autorentext

Valentina Migliarini is Assistant Professor in Education Studies **in the Department of Education and Social Justice in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her work addresses educational inequities for students living at the intersections of race, dis/ability, language, citizenship and migratory status, in Europe and the United States.

Brent C. Elder is Associate Professor of Inclusive Education **in the Department of Wellness and Inclusive Services in Education (WISE) in the College of Education at Rowan University, USA. His work focuses on the development of sustainable inclusive education practices in under-resourced schools in the United States and around the world.

Inhalt

1. The Future of Inclusive Education.- 2. Inclusive Education, Borderland Regime, and Resistance in Italy.- 3. Learning from the Global South: What Inclusive Education in Kenya Has to Offer the United States.- 4. DisCrit Contributions to Inclusive Policies and Practices in the United States.- 5. The Experiences of Deaf New Americans Accessing Education in the United States.- 6. Moving Forward: DisCrit-Informed Person-Centered Strategies for Inclusive Education.- 7. Conclusion: Toward Intersectional Inclusive Education.