Belonging: Rethinking Inclusive Practices to Support Well-Being and Identity

Annie Guerin has worked in a variety of teaching roles for over thirty years in primary and secondary schools in New Zealand. Most of this work has been undertaken in rural schools on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island. Most recently Annie has worked as a lecturer at the University of Canterbury. Her work has focussed strongly on inclusive education, assessment, authentic home / school partnerships and establishing cultures of belonging. Annie's work continues to privilege the knowledge of disabled people and their whanau/families as informing a better way forward for education in Aotearoa New Zealand.Trish McMenamin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Educational Studies and Leadership at the University of Canterbury. Her research interests include philosophy of education, inclusive education and education policy. She has published articles in these areas in scholarly journals including the Cambridge Journal of Education and Policy Futures in Education.

• Notes on Contributors1 Introduction: Setting the SceneTrish McMenamin and Annie Guerin>2 What Happens Next? Inclusion in an Excluding WorldKeith Ballard>PART 1: Participation – Belonging in Action3 Inclusion and Autism: BelongingMarie Turner, Gwen Gilmore and Scott Welsh>4 Theory Circles, Inclusion and the PhD studentBe Pannell, Julie White and Fiona Henderson>5 Achieving Citizenship for All: Theorising Active Participation for Disabled Children and Their Families in Early Childhood EducationKate McAnnelly and Michael Gaffney>PART 2: Policy and Theory to Support Belonging6 The Construction of Giftedness in Education Policy in New Zealand and Australia: Implications for Inclusive Education Policy and PracticeMelanie Wong and Ben Whitburn>7 Employing Intersectionality and the Concept of Difference to Investigate Belonging and InclusionLeechin Heng and Julie White>PART 3: Identity and Well-being – Keys to Belonging8 The Impact of Inclusive Education and Access to Sexuality Education on the Development of Identity in Young People Living with DisabilityHenrietta Bollinger and Hera Cook>9 Quality of “Belonging” and its Relationship to Learning: Case Studies of Three New Entrant Children and a 12-Year Old with Down SyndromeChristine Rietveld>