Reconstructions of the relationship between understandings and conditions of inclusion in the practice of teachers

Abstract

In political and scientific discourse, highly heterogeneous understandings of inclusion exist. Against this background, the present article raises the question of how teachers process the inclusion agenda in their practices at school. Therefore, implicit teacher orientations are empirically reconstructed – using the documentary method of text interpretation – and related to the underlying conditions. For this purpose, some empirical perspectives on different understandings of inclusion are considered. The theoretical basis refers to so-called »conditions of inclusion« (Weisser 2017), which are taken as reference points for the interpretation of sequence analysis of interviews conducted in the research and development project StiEL (founded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research). Finally, implications for a design of teacher trainings in inclusion are derived.