The Sociology of Disability and Inclusive Education: A Tribute to Len Barton
About this ebook
This collection explores a wide range of topics, including:
- difference as a field of political struggle
- the relationship of disability studies, disabled people and their struggle for inclusion
- radical activism: organic intellectuals and the disability movement
- discrimination, exclusion and effective change
- inclusive education
- the ‘politics of hope’, resilience and transformative actions
- universal pedagogy, human rights and citizenship debates.
The Sociology of Disability and Inclusive Education highlights Len Barton’s humane vision of academic work, of the nature of an inclusive and non-discriminatory society, of the role of an education system which addresses the rights, and potential of all participants. It indicates how such a society could be achieved through the principles of social inclusion, human rights, equity and social justice.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the British Journal of Sociology of Education.
About the author
Madeleine Arnot is Professor of Sociology of Education at Cambridge University, UK, and Professorial Fellow at Jesus College. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Chair of the Executive Editorial Board of the British Journal of Sociology of Education. Recent publications include Education, Asylum and the ‘Non-citizen’ child: The politics of compassion (2008, with H. Pinson and M. Candappa); Educating the Gendered Citizen: sociological engagements with national and global agendas (2009); and Gender Education and Equality in a Global Context (2008, ed. with S. Fennell).
