ABSTRACT

Inclusive education is a global rights-based response to educational exclusion. It is communicated through a range of modalities, but analysis predominantly focuses on discourses constituted in written texts. Systematic research is needed to understand the discursive ensembles constituted by the visual mode. Our interest is in images of inclusive education that are available online and sourced via a Google images search. Using a critical approach to visual analysis, we conducted a visual content analysis and a multimodal discourse analysis. Four prominent discourses of inclusive education are evident: discourses of diversity, childhood, connection, and celebration. Education is a discursive absence. Each discourse reflects ideas of the field, but together these images present a distorted view of inclusive education and trivialise its concerns. This raises questions about the extent to which images can adequately capture the complexity and import of notions of access, equity and social justice.

摘要

全纳教育是对教育排斥的全球性基于权利的回应。它通过一系列方式进行交流，但分析主要集中在书面文本中构成的话语上。需要系统的研究来理解由视觉模式构成的话语合奏。我们对全纳教育图片感兴趣，这些图片可在线获取并通过 Google 图片搜索获取。使用一种批判性的视觉分析方法，我们进行了视觉内容分析和多模态话语分析。四个突出的全纳教育话语是显而易见的：多样性话语、童年话语、联系话语和庆祝话语。教育是一种话语的缺席。每个话语都反映了该领域的观点，但这些图像共同呈现了对全纳教育的扭曲观点，并轻视了其关注点。