Distribution of the sensible within the Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action: maintaining patterns of inclusion and exclusion?. Issue 7 (3rd August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mercieca, Daniela; Mercieca, Duncan P.
• Is Part Of: International journal of inclusive education. Volume 23:Issue 7/8(2019)
• Page Start: 849
• Page End: 861
• Publication Date: 2019-08-03
• Subjects: the Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action -- Jacques Rancière -- distribution of the sensible -- dissensus -- equality; Inclusive education -- Periodicals; Mainstreaming in education -- Periodicals; 371.9
• DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2019.1623328
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1360-3116

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper revisits The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action through Jacques Rancière's writing about the distribution of the sensible. It questions the supports provided within the Maltese state education system and asks readers to 'think again' by asking what has been left out. The Salamanca Statement is seen as reflected within the Maltese education system, both of which, however, position people and services in particular spaces. As systems, they have a totalising quality, which disables thought or any possibility outside that which is given. They also make assumptions about equality that is achieved, whereas Rancière writes about equality as a starting point and a presupposition. This is what gives democracy and politics a possibility, two values that are at the heart of inclusion.