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The Struggle for Inclusion in Aotearoa

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As a young academic concerned about the way in which persistently disruptive students became objects not only of disciplinary intervention, but also of increasing pathological conjecture (Slee, 1988), I travelled from rural Victoria in Australia’s south to the warmth of Brisbane for a conference convened by the Schonell Special Education Research Centre to voice my concerns.

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Slee, R. (2014). The Struggle for Inclusion in Aotearoa. In: Wills, R., Morton, M., McLean, M., Stephenson, M., Slee, R. (eds) Tales from School. Studies in Inclusive Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-893-0_23

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