Space, Education and Inclusion : Interdisciplinary Approaches

This timely, edited volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on space and spatiality in inclusive education discourses.

With research from an international range of scholars, the book explores the intersections, boundaries, and intermediary spaces of inclusion and exclusion within educational contexts. It advances thinking in inclusive education research and links discourses of the spatial turn in inclusive education with a call for thinking spatially. Instead of defining one spatial approach as the overarching framework for analysis, it considers the potential of combining spatial approaches from diverse disciplines, including social sciences, educational science, and geography. The book systematically identifies and links the relations between a diversity of spatial theoretical perspectives and phenomena of inclusion/exclusion.

This volume provides invaluable, transdisciplinary readings and reflections on space and spatiality in inclusive education, and will be highly relevant for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of inclusive education, educational theory and the sociology of education.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Georg Rißler is affiliated with the Centre for Childhood in Education and Society at the University of Teacher Education in Zurich. His research focuses on practice theory, space and spatiality, inequality, common worlds and ethnography.

Andreas Köpfer is Professor for Research in Inclusive Education at the University of Education Freiburg, Germany. His research focuses on international comparative perspectives in inclusive education, and social and spatial theories regarding dis-abilities and disadvantages.

Tobias Buchner is a Professor at the Department of Inclusive Education at the University Teacher College, Upper Austria. His research focuses on Inclusive Education, Education and Space, Dis/ability Studies in Education, and Ableism in the Educational System.