Open the Doors: A Collaborative and Digital Exploration of Inclusive Secondary Schools

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: Collaborative and Multimodal Strategies for Constructing Inclusive Strategies

Abstract

Inclusive education can lead to improved academic, social, emotional and post-secondary outcomes for students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers. But the majority of students with complex support needs (i.e. students with labels of intellectual disability, autism, multiple disabilities, and emotional disabilities) continue to experience educational segregation (U.S. DOE, 2015) and poor educational outcomes (Jorgensen & Sauer, 2016). This paper reports on findings from a study that used participatory and digital methods to explore the practices and philosophies of inclusive secondary schools. Participatory digital research methods are growing and promising approaches to educational scholarship (Erickson, 2014; Hatch et al., 2004), and this study provides unique textual, visual and digital insight into the work of secondary inclusion.

Author

• Kathryn MacLeod, Syracuse University