Decolonizing Inclusive Education: Transposing Praxis

• In Event: Postcolonial Inquiries in a Globalizing World

Abstract

Inclusion or rather inclusive education (IE) like all ‘venerable’ promises that traverse local and global contexts is fraught with theoretical and practical complexities Critically evaluating IE using a decolonial framework is imperative. Interrogating movements that are initiated and spread by powerful global centers, including progressive movements like IE is necessary and justified.We trace the short but important historical roots of IE in the global north. Then we compare how IE is taken up by the global south.I describe how IE carries vestiges of coloniality. Then we propose a decolonizing strategy, dialogically transposing praxis that rejects the unilateral imposition of IE on communities in the global south

Authors

• Grace Tamara Handy, The University of Kansas

• Hailey Love, University of Kansas