Inclusive Research for Inclusive Education

Abstract

It is certainly possible to do research on inclusive education with non-inclusive procedures, but it does not seem possible to do research for inclusive education with exclusionary strategies. In other words, if research is to contribute to changing reality, research strategies must be coherent with the change sought.
Just as education is a political act, educational research is profoundly political. What is studied, what for, for whom, with what methodological approaches, with whom, what role the participants play, how and where the results are disseminated, etc., etc., are choices deeply charged with politics in the Freirian sense: the global conception of the world and of the human being (Murillo and Hidalgo, 2017).