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ERIC Number: EJ1172745
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1360-3116
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An Analysis of Alterity in Teachers' Inclusive Pedagogical Practices
Sagner-Tapia, Johanna
International Journal of Inclusive Education, v22 n4 p375-390 2018
This investigation contributes to understanding how teachers reflect on the other with a disability and on their own practices. Literature suggests that inclusion takes place when barriers are removed, allowing participation. However, scholars agree that teachers still struggle with pedagogical practices in inclusive classrooms. Hansen (Hansen, J. H. 2012. "Limits to Inclusion." "International Journal of Inclusive Education" 16 (1): 89-98) contends that teachers establish limits to inclusion in order to manage the level of diversity, arguing that the limits depend on the teacher's understanding of disability. This article examines German secondary school teachers, who reflect on inclusive pedagogical practices and their relationship to learners with disabilities. The analysis shows that most teachers add levels of complexity when constructing the disability's identity. Teachers struggled with the notion of limitation associated with disability and with the discovery of the other, with new learning skills and abilities. Interactions with learners with a disability open new venues to practice inclusion and encourage participation, but this requires a change in practices; yet, not all teachers feel prepared to do that. Teachers offered various rationales on why they applied limits to inclusion; those rationales are rooted in how they interpret disability and their own roles as teachers.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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