EPCL Departmental Seminar 2008/09

Encouraging Voices – Young People with Special Educational Needs Explore their Experiences of Schooling

- Prof Richard ROSE

 

Richard Rose is Professor of Special and Inclusive Education and Director of the Centre for Special Needs Education and Research at the University of Northampton, UK. He has previously held posts as a teacher in four English Local Authorities, as Head Teacher and Local Authority Inspector. Richard has published widely on aspects of inclusive education and research in a range of academic journals. His books include Strategies to Promote Inclusive Practice (with Christina Tilstone), Doing Research in Special Education (with Ian Grosvenor) and Encouraging Voices: Respecting the Insights of Young People who have been Marginalised (with Michael Shevlin). Richard Rose is Marden Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute of Education in Hong Kong.

Abstract

Debates surrounding the promotion of more inclusive schooling for children and young people who have previously been marginalised have centred upon issues of human rights, school improvement and pedagogy. Within this debate policy makers, researchers and teachers have all expressed their views and have contributed to an increased understanding of those conditions which support the development of inclusive schools. More recently attention has been given to the views of young people and to approaches which encourage them to critique their own experiences of school. This seminar reports work from the Encouraging Voices Project (2003, 2004, 2006, 2008) which brought together researchers and young people to explore issues of inclusion and exclusion in schools in England and Ireland. The session will consider both the methodological and ethical challenges of presenting the authentic voices of young people as participants in research and the ways in which their views may be interpreted. Excerpts from interview data will be presented and discussed in relation to current inclusion research agendas.

 30 April 2009 (Thurs)

12 noon to 1 pm

D2-LP-18

For HKIEd Staff and Students

Organized by the EPCL Department, Faculty of Education Studies

Light refreshments will be provided to enrolled participants