321 research outputs found
International Issues in SEND and Inclusion: Perspectives Across Six Continents
No full textInternational Issues in SEND and Inclusion brings together a collection of cutting-edge researches on approaches to special education needs and disability education, across 6 continents and within 12 countries.
Written by authors who are experts in their own countries in relation to special educational needs and disability, the book provides a unique knowledge and understanding of different international perspectives in special educational needs, disability and inclusion. The chapters present extended case studies and reflect on current policy, practice and theory within that context, challenging assumptions which can dominate the policy and practice of inclusive education. Each of the six continents has a separate section and introduction within the book to offer a relevant approach and context for analysis.
The book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of inclusion, special educational needs and disability, teacher education and comparative education
International issues in SEND and inclusion: Perspectives across six continents
No full textThis is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in [International Issues in SEND and Inclusion: Perspectives Across Six Continents] on [27/09/2022], available online: http://www.routledge.com/International-Issues-in-SEND-and-Inclusion-Perspectives-Across-Six-Continents/Hodkinson-Williams-Brown/p/book/9781032011004This chapter will explore the impact of the cultural frameworks of the society on the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) provision in different countries around the world. The influences of cultural dynamics /frameworks on the conceptualization and attitudes towards SEND and provision of services available will be illustrated. The impact of global and local cultures, values, traditions and beliefs affecting the attitudes on the identification and accessing provision for SEND in different countries will be objectively presented. Challenges and tensions around the conflicting policies imposed by the Global North countries on Global South countries and its implications on the provision will be analysed
Illusionary inclusion - what went wrong with New Labour's landmark educational policy?
No full textThis article examines the emergence and evolution of New Labour's landmark educational policy; namely that of inclusion. The author, Alan Hodkinson, associate professor at the Centre for Cultural and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University, illuminates his conceptual difficulties in attempting to define what inclusion was and what inclusive education became during the latter part of the twentieth century and first decade of the twenty-first century. Throughout this article he endeavours to observe and define inclusive education in England through the employment of critical analysis of teacher discourse and examination of the vocabulary of inclusion. The article's contextual precept is that, rather than creating a brave new world for equality and social justice, inclusive education here was rendered illusionary by the actors who colonised and striated inclusion's space upon a stage of competing policy initiatives and practicalities of educational settings
England: Inclusive education in a standards-driven system
No full textThis is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in International Issues in SEND and Inclusion
Perspectives Across Six Continents on 27/09/2022, available online: https://www.routledge.com/International-Issues-in-SEND-and-Inclusion-Perspectives-Across-Six-Continents/Hodkinson-Brown/p/book/9781032011004#The chapter will critically consider the ‘inclusion agenda’ in England and its current use in practice. Internationally, inclusive practice in England is held in high regard. However, this chapter will detail the practical implementation of inclusion alongside the dominance of the standards agenda in schools. In considering inclusion in this manner, we will question the original intentions of its agenda against the practical implementation of inclusive education in current practice.Published versio
Goth. Identity, Style and Subculture
No full textGoths represent one of the most arresting, distinctive and enduring subcultures of recent times. The dedication of those involved to a lifestyle which, from the outside, may appear dark and sinister, has spawned reactions ranging from admiration to alarm. Until now, no one has conducted a full-scale ethnographic study of this fascinating subcultural group. Based on extensive research by an 'insider', this is the first. Immersing us in the potent mix of identities, practices and values that make up the goth scene, the author takes us behind the faade of the goth mystique. From dress and musical tastes to social habits and the use of the internet, Hodkinson details the inner workings of this intriguing group. Defying postmodern theories that claim media and commerce break down substantive cultural groupings, Hodkinson shows how both have been used by goths to retain, and even strengthen, their group identity. Hodkinson provides a comprehensive reworking of subcultural theory, making a key contribution to the disciplines of sociology, cultural studies, youth studies, media studies, and popular music studies. Readable and accessible, this groundbreaking book presents a unique chance to engage with a contemporary, spectacular culture
Goth. Identity, Style and Subculture
No full textGoths represent one of the most arresting, distinctive and enduring subcultures of recent times. The dedication of those involved to a lifestyle which, from the outside, may appear dark and sinister, has spawned reactions ranging from admiration to alarm. Until now, no one has conducted a full-scale ethnographic study of this fascinating subcultural group. Based on extensive research by an 'insider', this is the first. Immersing us in the potent mix of identities, practices and values that make up the goth scene, the author takes us behind the faade of the goth mystique. From dress and musical tastes to social habits and the use of the internet, Hodkinson details the inner workings of this intriguing group. Defying postmodern theories that claim media and commerce break down substantive cultural groupings, Hodkinson shows how both have been used by goths to retain, and even strengthen, their group identity. Hodkinson provides a comprehensive reworking of subcultural theory, making a key contribution to the disciplines of sociology, cultural studies, youth studies, media studies, and popular music studies. Readable and accessible, this groundbreaking book presents a unique chance to engage with a contemporary, spectacular culture
Goth. Identity, Style and Subculture
No full textGoths represent one of the most arresting, distinctive and enduring subcultures of recent times. The dedication of those involved to a lifestyle which, from the outside, may appear dark and sinister, has spawned reactions ranging from admiration to alarm. Until now, no one has conducted a full-scale ethnographic study of this fascinating subcultural group. Based on extensive research by an 'insider', this is the first. Immersing us in the potent mix of identities, practices and values that make up the goth scene, the author takes us behind the faade of the goth mystique. From dress and musical tastes to social habits and the use of the internet, Hodkinson details the inner workings of this intriguing group. Defying postmodern theories that claim media and commerce break down substantive cultural groupings, Hodkinson shows how both have been used by goths to retain, and even strengthen, their group identity. Hodkinson provides a comprehensive reworking of subcultural theory, making a key contribution to the disciplines of sociology, cultural studies, youth studies, media studies, and popular music studies. Readable and accessible, this groundbreaking book presents a unique chance to engage with a contemporary, spectacular culture
Goth
No full textGoths represent one of the most arresting, distinctive and enduring subcultures of recent times. The dedication of those involved to a lifestyle which, from the outside, may appear dark and sinister, has spawned reactions ranging from admiration to alarm. Until now, no one has conducted a full-scale ethnographic study of this fascinating subcultural group. Based on extensive research by an ‘insider’, this is the first. Immersing us in the potent mix of identities, practices and values that make up the goth scene, the author takes us behind the faade of the goth mystique. From dress and musical tastes to social habits and the use of the internet, Hodkinson details the inner workings of this intriguing group. Defying postmodern theories that claim media and commerce break down substantive cultural groupings, Hodkinson shows how both have been used by goths to retain, and even strengthen, their group identity.Hodkinson provides a comprehensive reworking of subcultural theory, making a key contribution to the disciplines of sociology, cultural studies, youth studies, media studies, and popular music studies. Readable and accessible, this groundbreaking book presents a unique chance to engage with a contemporary, spectacular culture.</JATS1:p
Pathologies of professionalism: Invoking controversial dialectic and duelling aporias –‘per fas et nefas,’ through a performative courtroom drama.
No full textThis paper applies Schopenhauer’s stratagems to an examination of the
professional, within a performative courtroom trial of critical analysis.
The Defence submission seeks to sanctify the modern professional as a
solidifying force in society. The prosecution employs Schopenhauer’s The
Art of Being Right to bring a different definition and history to the
concept of the professional. Through this application, the author hopes
that you, the reader, might act as jury and so weigh the evidence to find
your own guilt/innocence or truth/deceit in the operationalisations of
professionalism within societ
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