The affordances of place: implications of ecological psychology for inclusive education
PhD Thesis
Title | The affordances of place: implications of ecological psychology for inclusive education |
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Type | PhD Thesis |
Authors | |
Author | Finn, Roxanne |
Supervisor | Hickey, Andrew (USQ) |
Phillips, Louise (QU) | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Qualification Name | Doctor of Philosophy |
Number of Pages | 293 |
Year | 2015 |
Abstract | A major challenge for places where schooling has become deeply entrenched as a way of life is to ensure that all children experience educational success. The necessity of schooling to account for diversity confluent with the impossibility of educational change, construes this ideal of ‘inclusive education’ as a necessary impossibility. Under increasing constraints of a so called ‘audit culture’ impacting the conditions for learning and teaching, coupled with the inherent exclusivity of a monomorphic model, reproducing injustice has become the norm. This thesis tackles an examination of the tensions between inclusivity, as part of a wider social justice movement for school reform, and the monomorphic project of schooling driven by Educational success or competence is rarely understood as the synergism of person and environment. This research embraces an ecological psychological stance so that the analysis assumes organism-environment mutuality. I proffer that such an analysis transcends the deficit rationality that dominates the discourse of schooling and provides direction for the future of educational provisions that are more inherently inclusive. The research evidences how spatio-temporal qualities of slowness and spontaneity, and relational qualities constituting helpfulness, more |
Keywords | inclusive education; educational success; ecological psychology; alternative education; learning environments; parent and community engagement in schools; personalising learning; student-centred learning; transformative learning |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520102. Educational psychology |
390409. Learning sciences | |
390411. Special education and disability | |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3360/the-affordances-of-place-implications-of-ecological-psychology-for-inclusive-education
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