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Publication Date: 2019
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The 2014 Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice: Old Ideology into New Policy Contexts?
Hodkinson, Alan; Burch, Leah
Journal of Education Policy, v34 n2 p155-173 2019
This article reveals the Foucauldian docile body manufactured within the Department for Education's special educational needs and disability code of practice 2014 through employment of a theoretical lens of embodiment and an analytical focus on only three words. In problematizing the concepts of support, employment and independence, we seek to upend this docile body juxtaposing such against the active 'non-productive' disabled body. We conclude that the Code is riven with ideological assumptions which act as a constraint to the location, form and function of the body. Everybody's body is sorted and graded according to its ability to fulfil a Conservative work ethic and contribute positively to a society in which bodies are not equally valued. The authors suggest that critical discourse analysis, informed by the outlined conceptualisation of embodiment, could be usefully applied in the critiquing of many policy and guidance documents.
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Needs, Disabilities, Ideology, Social Justice, Discourse Analysis, Work Ethic, Human Body, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students, Federal Programs, Federal Legislation, Standards, Neoliberalism, Independent Living, Employment Potential
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