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Publication Date: 2006-Feb
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Seeking Stories: Reflections on a Narrative Approach to Researching Understandings of Inclusion
Lawson, Hazel; Parker, Maureen; Sikes, Pat
European Journal of Special Needs Education, v21 n1 p55-68 Feb 2006
This paper draws on research which took an auto/biographical and narrative approach in order to investigate mainstream teachers' and teaching assistants' experiences and understandings of inclusion. Throughout the 2003/04 academic year, three researchers made three visits to one primary and one secondary school to talk with individuals and groups. The research involved the stories collected as "data" and our stories as researchers. This paper draws on both sets of stories and considers the researchers' experiences of "doing" and being involved in narrative research, as well as affording some glimpses into the stories of inclusion that they collected.
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Personal Narratives, Inclusive Schools, Mainstreaming, Teacher Attitudes, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Autobiographies, Interviews, Special Needs Students, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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