What are the experiences of children and young people?
How can we think about the challenges they face?
What systems and practices can support them?
How can we develop greater equality, participation and inclusion across diverse settings?
This second edition of Equality, Participation and Inclusion 1: Diverse Perspectives is the first of two Readers aimed at people with an interest in issues of equality, participation and inclusion for children and young people. This first Reader focuses in particular on the diverse perspectives held by different practitioners and stakeholders.
Comprising readings taken from the latest research in journal articles, newly commissioned chapters, as well as several chapters from the first edition that retain particular relevance, this fully updated second edition has broadened its focus to consider a greater diversity of perspectives. Whilst exploring how we think about the experiences of children and young people across a range of contexts it maintains a subtle, underlying emphasis upon education and the experiences of disabled people.
Drawing on the writing of academics, practitioners, children and young people, and people who have experienced exclusion, this book is a rich resource for students and practitioners who are interested in thinking about how inequality and exclusion are experienced, and how they can be challenged. Much of the material reflects on lived experiences and life stories, and will be of particular interest to those working in education, health, youth and community work, youth justice and social services, as well as to families and advocates.
1. Introduction: Another point of view Part 1: Looking back: A personal experience 2. Mabel Cooper's life story 3. 'The stairs didn't go anywhere': a self-advocate's reflections on specialised services and their impact on people with disabilities 4. 'Race', gender and educational desire 5. Brushed behind the bike shed: working-class lesbians' experiences of school Part 2: Looking forwards: The development of new thinking 6. Has classroom teaching served its day? 7. The politics of education for all 8. Why it remains important to take children's rights seriously 9. Youth participation in the UK:Bureaucratic disaster or triumph of child rights? Part 3: Looking from within: Barriers and opportunities 10. Social model or unsociable muddle? 11. Including all of our lives: renewing the social model of disability 12. Children's experiences of disability: pointers to a social model of childhood disability' 13. Towards an affirmation model of disability 14. The news of inclusive education: a narrative analysis 15. Guardians of tradition: presentations of inclusion in three introductory special education textbooks 16. Transcending transculturalism? Race, ethnicity and health-care 17. Countering the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder epidemic: a question of ethics? Part 4: Looking from within: The experience of inclusion 18. Inclusion in mainstream classrooms: experiences of deaf pupils 19. Voices on: teachers and teaching assistants talk about inclusion 20. Lessons from the 1%: children with labels of severe disabilities and their peers as architects of inclusive education Part 5: Looking around us: A broader experience 21. Children's "social capital": implications for health and well-being 22. Taking looked after children's views into account on a day-to-day level: the perceptions and experiences of children and social workers 23. Aversive disablism: subtle prejudice toward disabled people 24. A Collective Model of difference
