Living Otherwise : Students with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities As Agents in Educational Contexts.

Intro -- Living Otherwise: Students with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities as Agents in Educational Contexts -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Thinking linearly about students with PMLD -- Students with PMLD as agents -- A word of caution -- Outline of the book -- Chapter 2: Cartographies of PMLD -- Defining PMLD -- Mainstream or special schools -- Planning for the education of students with PMLD -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: In-between Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari -- Linear thinking - Structure thinking -- Living otherwise: Derrida -- Living otherwise: Deleuze and Deleuze-Guattari -- Chapter 4: The research and writing process -- (Re)Formulating the research -- Stories -- Chapter 5: Today, another school day. Settling in -- Story One: Finding a Place -- Story Two: Morning assembly -- Story Three: Tantrums -- Story Four: Rain, rain and more rain -- Chapter 6: In the middle of the school day -- Story One: Finding a position -- Story Two: Humming away -- Story Three: The party invitation -- Chapter 7: At the end of another school day -- Story One: The dance: Tip tip tippiti tip -- Story Two: Smile please -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Planes of sense-making - Establishing a style -- An appendix: A fantastic decomposition of the "I" -- P is for political, or professional, or PMLD -- Conlusion: Desire -- References.

This book addresses the question of agency that children with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) have in educational contexts. When children have such severe impairment, the idea of their agency often does not cross the mind of adults around them. However this book draws upon the work of Jacques Derrida, Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze in relation to nine stories on engaging with children with PMLD, showing to readers the profound influence that children have upon the lives and actions of the persons around them.

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