Articulating with Difficulty: Research Voices in Inclusive Education

This is an important book that needs to be read by anyone doing research in this area′ - British Educational Research Journal

Articulating with Difficulty is an excellent collection and comes highly recommended. It follows Peter Clough and Len Barton′s earlier and controversial collection, Making Difficulties (1995), and draws on a wide range of perspectives in disability, inclusive education and Special Education Needs (SEN) research to tease out key issues on "voice".... All contributors share a willingness to engage seriously with challenges thrown down by disabled academics and activists; that they do from different standpoints is another strength of this collection′ - Disability & Society

This volume addresses the issue of voice′ in special education research; the voices of the researchers as well as those of the researched′, and the ways in which research mediates identities. It follows on from the well-known and controversial Making Difficulties, also edited by Peter Clough and Len Barton.

The contributors address, among other things: the question of overt and subtle power relations within the research context; the issues of voice′ in emancipatory research; and the view that a more democratic approach to research is made difficult because of the individualized, competitive work culture of higher education and research production.