Access and Inclusion: Social-spatial relations in school

Lecture Series (English & German)
International Perspectives on Teacher Education for Social Justice and Inclusion

In her lecture, Kathryn will focus on access and inclusion. Building from theorization of the concept of access within disability studies, in this talk she suggests that policies and practices to support inclusion in schools must work from an expanded conception of access. Because school is not only the site of academic training, but also the multiple social worlds, inclusive schools must take into account how students can be included in those social worlds. Drawing examples from her research and her experience as a parent of a child with Down syndrome, Kathryn will trouble the idea that access and inclusion are things that can be developed through educational policy and implemented by administrators. She will describe instead how access and inclusion can be thought of as relational forms, making them both more ambiguous and more feasible to implement. Ambiguous, because inclusion becomes the way we relate to one another; and feasible, because all members of a school are responsible for practicing inclusion.

Moderation

Dr. Josefine Wagner

Organisation

Prof. Dr. Marcela Pozas
Dr. Josefine Wagner
Dr. Maria Fernanda Esqueda Villegas
Dr. Lucy Hunt

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