Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
European Sociological Association 2024: Tension, Trust And Transformation, Porto, Portekiz, 27 - 30 Ağustos 2024, ss.338, (Özet Bildiri)
In Turkey, the inclusive education principle appeared in the 1990s to organize the school life of certain groups of disabled children. However, although specialists in educational studies contribute to a normative bibliography that summarizes the ideal principles of inclusive education, it rarely becomes the subject of sociological research. Based upon a field study conducted between November 2018 and January 2020 in nine primary schools in Istanbul, with 74 interviewed actors (teachers, psychological counselors and parents of children with dyslexia and/or ADHD) in order to understand the medicalized definition and treatment of learning difficulties, this communication aims to review the practical experiences of teachers with the inclusive education. In the absence of institutional tools and efficient school arrangements, teachers find themselves in professional paradoxes to welcome disabled children into their classroom. These paradoxes can be summarized in three dimensions. On a perceptual level, teachers face the injunction to include children with disabilities while they find themselves among the main actors who externalize learning difficulties by reducing them to a neurobiological problem redefined in terms of disabilities and attributing responsibility to medical actors. On a practical level, the principle of inclusion is not supported by practical institutional arrangements. Teachers find themselves obliged to assume the communication task (with parents, the psychiatrist, the rehabilitation center and other actors) while the different actors involved in this process rarely communicate with each other. On an ethical level, reduced to the question of disability, the principle of inclusion constitutes for many teachers the antonym of social justice because to take care of these children in the class, they see themselves obliged to renounce others who whould also need special interest.