Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

DOI

10.1080/01425692.2024.2334272

Publication Title

British Journal of Sociology of Education

Volume

45

Issue

4

Pages

531-546

Abstract

Of the little written about educational exclusion, much of it considers exclusion as disabled students experiencing less access, opportunities and participation in education when compared to their nondisabled same-aged peers. Our article aims to move beyond these narrow, parochial, and reductive postulates by centering the inter- and intra-subjectivities of disabled students to conceptualize exclusion as experiences with internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement that may (or may not) be experienced in any or all material and social spaces in education. We cast light on ableism and psycho-emotional disablement in education so that we and others can challenge, disrupt, and transform it given that it can impact negatively on the wellbeing of disabled students. We end by encouraging researchers to explore how ableism permeates the ideologies, discourses, logics, and traditions of education systems, and for policy makers, school leaders, and teachers to experience anti-disablism training and to adopt an anti-ableist perspective.

Rights

© 2024 The Authors.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. the terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.

Original Publication Citation

Maher, A. J., & Haegele, J. A. (2024). Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: Conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 45(4),531-546. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2024.2334272

ORCID

0000-0002-8580-4782 (Haegele)

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