Territories of innovation: the local dimension of innovative inclusive education practices

Abstract

Part of a wider research project analysing practices, voices and pathways of inclusive education, and considering a set of socio-educational practices developed in the framework of two nation-wide intervention programmes in Portugal, in eleven different empirical contexts, this paper will look into the innovative dimension and the local dimension of such practices. It is a multi-case study, intended to contribute significantly to the analysis of the intervention on school failure and dropout, by mapping the points of view of the institutional actors engaged in a panel of inclusive socio-educational practices. These actors identify and characterize locally-based, successful socio-educational practices to overcome school failure and dropout, contributing to the understanding of the processes, factors, rationales and partnerships which support them.