Translating the Rhetoric of Inclusion into Reality: Research Seminar

This study traces the autobiographical factors which have shaped the development of an inclusive teacher identity. It also examines how the changing discourses of inclusion have shaped its realisation in practice across a teaching career which spans in excess of thirty years. Life history method is used to examine the biography and teaching career of one informant. Additionally, an auto-ethnographic approach is employed to consider the effects of inclusion on one school.

In this session I will present my research and discuss some of the challenges that I encountered during my doctoral studies.