Ideology and the Politics of (In)Exclusion provides an international analysis of the politics
of research and practice in special education. The contributors to this volume establish
purposeful connections to the micropolitics of disability identification and the macropolitics
of social structure and describe various geographic locales recount multiple historical
contexts rely upon differing sources of evidence and as a consequence relate a more complex
and richly layered analysis of educational inclusion. Ideology and the Politics of
(In)Exclusion breaks away from the prevailing discourse on educational inclusion as that which
occurs in a vacuum separate from social inclusion by providing a close analysis of the narrow
frameworks historic influence and research tensions that underwrite current special education
practice.
