ABSTRACT
This is not a book (or even a chapter) about the inclusion of pupils and students with SLD and PMLD into mainstream education. This is an extremely interesting subject, but we do not have the space to do it justice here and so we won’t try. We do wish however to approach the topic from the dilemmatic approach, that is, recognising that there are dilemmas of difference at work and that these need to be both addressed and resolved. The term ‘dilemmas of difference’ was first coined by Martha Minnow in her studies relating to the American legal system. She succinctly placed the dilemma in perspective by asking ‘When does treating people differently emphasize their differences and stigmatize or hinder them on that basis? And when does treating people the same become insensitive to their differences and likely to stigmatize or hinder them on that basis?’ (Minow, 1990, p. 20.)
