Knowledge of Inclusive Education

<p><em>The Knowledge of Inclusive Education </em>is a paradigm-shifting exploration of inclusive education as a dynamic knowledge practice. The knowledge that underpins the practice is understood through the metaphor of an ecology with valuable contributions from educators researchers parents students policymakers and international organisations.</p><p>By examining the knowledge of policy research teacher education and activism Elizabeth Walton constructs a future for inclusive education that affirms different material-discursive places inquiry and possibility and replaces traditional research hierarchies with a life-affirming ecology. Readers will gain a novel perspective on the knowledge/s of inclusive education across multiple interacting domains.</p><p>With theoretical resources ranging from the work of Lorraine Code and Basil Bernstein to concepts from Legitimation Code Theory Decolonial theory and Posthumanism this book offers a unique and innovative approach to the multiple perspectives and knowledges that inform inclusive education policy and practice. Its conceptual and empirical research draws from several international contexts ensuring that <i>The Knowledge of Inclusive Education</i> will be of interest to educators scholars and advocates of inclusive education worldwide and valued by those willing to embrace collaborative new directions in inclusive teaching learning and research.</p>