Parenting Inclusive Education is about the lives of twenty-four parents who have, or are in the process of, negotiating the emotional and practical journey in mothering and fathering their learning "disabled" child. The author, writing from the perspective of a women researcher, sociologist and a mother of a learning disabled daughter, questions the very nature of the weak inclusive education discourse and unpacks parents' narratives in relation to denial, disappointment and social exclusion.
Author(s): Chrissie Rogers
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 242
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Boxes......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
1 Introduction......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Laying the foundations......Page 17
Introducing disability......Page 18
Locating recent past and current policies......Page 20
Introductions: the parents and a research process......Page 23
Organisation of the book......Page 31
2 Mothering and Disability: The Social, Cultural and Political Spheres......Page 34
'Natural' mothering......Page 35
Mothering in context......Page 40
Being human?......Page 42
'Inclusive' education and exclusion......Page 43
Experiencing disability......Page 47
Introducing the conceptual: exclusion, denial and disappointment......Page 49
Reflections......Page 53
3 Mothering: Identification and Diagnosis of Impairment......Page 54
'Loss' of the expected child: shock, denial and disappointment......Page 55
Parental identification, emotional responses and labels......Page 64
Professional diagnosis......Page 72
Conclusions......Page 77
4 Statementing and Partnership: Working Together?......Page 79
The assessment and statementing process......Page 80
A route to assessment: a family problem?......Page 87
Legal dilemmas......Page 94
Parents and 'partnership'......Page 103
Conclusions......Page 111
5 Experiencing a 'Special' Education......Page 114
Parental hopes for mainstream education......Page 115
Adverse reactions to the 'special' school......Page 121
Experiences within the 'special' school......Page 126
Experiencing exclusion: the child and the parent......Page 132
Residential placement: respite or provision?......Page 139
Conclusions......Page 144
6 Living with Impairment......Page 147
Exclusion and isolation as disabling......Page 148
Support as a foundation of well-being......Page 151
Depression, anxiety and mental health......Page 161
Siblings and their impaired brother or sister......Page 166
Professional parenting: the work involved......Page 169
Conclusions......Page 176
Introduction......Page 178
Within the social, cultural and political spheres......Page 181
Problematic inclusive discourses and the 'disabled' family......Page 186
…Finally......Page 188
Bibliography......Page 191
D......Page 197
G......Page 198
M......Page 199
P......Page 200
T......Page 201
Z......Page 202
