International Perspectives on Inclusive Education

Simone Seitz is a Full Professor for General Didactics and Inclusive Education at the Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Vice-Director of the Competence Centre for School Inclusion at the Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Petra Auer is a University Researcher (Type A) at the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Rosa Bellacicco is a University Researcher (Type B) with fixed-term contract at the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences of the University of Turin and affiliated member of the Competence Centre for School Inclusion of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

“The included studies address important dimensions, raise interesting questions and propose new empirical approaches to the study of inclusion as a policy and politics of education.”Gunnlaugur Magnússon, European Journal of Special Needs Education 2024, Vol. 39, No. 2

• Mel Ainscow, Gottfried Biewer, Vera Moser: Preface – International Perspectives on Inclusion and Educational Justice Simone Seitz, Petra Auer, Rosa Bellacicco: Introduction – In the Light of Educational Justice: International Perspectives on Inclusion Part I: Conceptualisations Underpinning Research on Diversity, Equity, and InclusionMai-Anh Boger: Political Ontologies of Difference and Their Trilemmatic Structure Anja Tervooren: The Social Category of ‘Disability’ as a Desideratum of Intersectional Childhood Studies Alessandra Imperio, Simone Seitz: Positioning of Children in Research on Assessment Practices in Primary School Michaela Kaiser, Simone Seitz: Giftedness and Achievement within Discourses Part II: Educational Justice within Different Education Systems – Some Empirical EvidenceSimone Seitz, Francesca Berti, Catalina Hamacher: Throughout the Day on the Way to More Educational Justice? Children’s Voices on All Day-primary Schooling Petra Auer: On the Inclusiveness of the Education System in a Multination State from the Perspective of Primary School Children and Teachers’ Values Rosa Bellacicco, Silver Cappello: Evidence on Analysis and Reflections of Available Statistical Data in Italy Joanne Banks, Silver Cappello, Heidrun Demo, Rune Hausstätter, Simone Seitz: Funding Models of Inclusion in an International Perspective Part III: Doing Inclusion – Doing Difference Valentina Migliarini: Inclusive Education from the DisCrit Perspective Anna Frizzarin: Adolescents’ Attitudes Towards and Representation of Otherness Petra Auer, Rosa Bellacicco, Dario Ianes: Individual Education Plans as Instruments and Practices for Inclusion: Problems and Dilemmas Heidrun Demo: Conclusion – The Challenge of Integrating Antinomies Around Inclusive Education About the Authors Index of Terms