ABSTRACT
In a dialogic-cosmopolitan approach, agreement toward inclusion of difference can be enacted through an openness to dialogue. Heather Rakes’ approach may result in a limited and compensatory view of inclusion that assumes deficit is inherent in the individual and needs to be accommodated. In a preservice and inservice teachers’ discussion of “Comfortable,” the video became a catalyst for creating remix videos from popular visual culture for upper elementary school children to find beauty in themselves and all people, no matter how different. Edward Casey, in Getting Back Into Place, developed the concept of “implacement” to emphasize the importance of place in our ability to conceive the world—the way in which place contributes to community and by extension to inclusion or exclusion. As Tanya Titchkosky explains, inclusion is only possible if exclusion is perceivable, and meaning is only possible if questions are asked.
