The Illusion of the Inclusive Education for Migrant Children in Greece: What Is Wrong?

• In Event: Exploring Teachers' Attitudes and Perspectives Toward Inclusion

Abstract

Despite the assumption of necessity for inclusive education, migrant students continue to be in separated educational settings, away from their peers. This paper explores how primary school teachers’ conceptualization of inclusive education hinder real inclusion for children with societal markers of difference, like migration status, preferable language, ethnicity, and social stratum, reproducing social inequities. The study is part of a PhD research in Greece using the Disability Critical Race (DisCrit) theory as a theoretical and interdisciplinary framework to address the structural and systemic inequalities within the Greek education system and curriculum.

Authors

• Katerina Karachaliou, NHS England Alder Hey Children's Hospital

• Valentina Migliarini, University of Birmingham