This work compiles 14 essays by US, UK, Canadian, Australian, and international contributors in special education, educational studies, and social research. Each contributor reflects on one piece of scholarship or one scholar that influenced them, revealing the foundations of inclusive education research. Some of the core scholars examined include Sally Tomlinson, Dorothy Lipsky, and Julie Allan. Specific chapter topics include stealth bureaucracy in Sally Tomlinson’s Irresistible Rise of the SEN Industry, developing a critical sociology of special and inclusive education, Roger Slee and Julie Allan’s reconsideration of inclusive education, Third World feminist and disability studies, John Dewey’s lessons for inclusive education, Dorothy Lipsky and Alan Gartner’s Inclusion and School Reform, and lessons from the work of Burton Blatt.

Developing a Critical Sociology of Special and Inclusive Education: The Contribution of Sally Tomlinson. Stealth Bureaucracy in Sally Tomlinson’s Irresistible Rise of the SEN Industry. Questioning Assumptions: Roger Slee and Julie Allan’s Reconsideration of Inclusive Education. The Bumpy Road to Genuinely Inclusive Schools: Still Learning from Ferguson’s ‘Rabid’ Confessions of an Authentic Inclusionist. Do Attitudes Predict Behaviour – An (un)Solved Mystery?. Assembling All the Jigsaw Pieces Together: The Critical Work of Dorothy Lipsky and Alan Gartner’s Inclusion and School Reform. Why the Pursuit of Inclusive Education Cannot be Left to Science: Lessons from the Work of Burton Blatt. The Sociological Straitjacket and the Ethics of Exclusion. Re-imagining Inclusive Research and Practice: A Focus on Bourdieu’s Concepts of Habitus, Capital, Doxa and Field. New Linkages for a Complex Inclusive Education: Third World Feminism, Post-Positivist Realism and Disability Studies. The Illusion of Our Separativeness: Exploring Heshusius’s Concept of Participatory Consciousness in Disability Research and Inclusive Education. Interrupting the Prevailing Discourse on Special Education: Political and Sociological Perspectives Offered by Len Barton. Under the Mentorship of John Dewey: Democratic Lessons for Inclusive Education. From Special Education to Integration to Genuine Inclusion. Copyright page. Dedication. Foundations of Inclusive Education Research. List of Contributors. International Perspectives on Inclusive Education. Foundations of Inclusive Education Research.