Interview 7: Professor Roger Slee

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Professor Roger Slee, Editor of International Journal of Inclusive Education

This audio interview is the seventh in a series of interviews Routledge is conducting with the editors of some of its key Education journals.

The interview page has been split into sections which can be quickly accessed by selecting any of the links below:

• Introduction
• Professor Roger Slee answers the questions
• More about Professor Roger Slee

Introduction

These interviews are aimed at students, educational researchers, academics and visitors to the Education Arena website who are interested in particular journals and would like to find out more.

Each interview provides information about the editor in question and details about the creation of their journal and its purpose and scope within the wider sphere of educational research. Each editor is also asked to offer advice, hints and tips to prospective authors who may be hoping to submit papers to their journal.

This seventh interview is with Professor Roger Slee, founder and editor of the Routledge journal International Journal of Inclusive Education. The journal provides a strategic forum for international and multi-disciplinary dialogue on inclusive education for all educators and educational policy-makers concerned with the form and nature of schools, universities and technical colleges.

Professor Roger Slee answers the questions

The interview took place at the Institute of Education, London January 13th, 2009

We also provide a transcription of this interview to overcome accessibility problems if you have hearing difficulties (or for those of you who may just prefer to read the interview).

More about Professor Roger Slee

Professor Roger Slee is passionate about inclusive education and has dedicated much of his academic life to the international recognition of this controversial issue. His contribution as Editor of International Journal of Inclusive Education as well as many other publications has resulted in a commendable increase in education policy, generated with the intent to make the much needed push for reform.

Throughout his career, Roger has shown great commitment to his research roles, providing his journals and numerous books with high quality content. He has held research chairs at the University of London and the University of Western Australia; a suitable acknowledgement of Roger's outstanding research abilities. His research interests include education policy, education leadership, disability studies, student behaviour, and social theory, all of which have been covered and developed extensively in Roger's work as well as the work of those that he has influenced during his career.

In regard to inclusive education, Roger has undoubtedly contributed significantly throughout many different sectors; not only was he the Founding Editor of International Journal of Inclusive Education, but he has refereed papers on inclusive education and aided the study of university students as Professor of Inclusive Education at the Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication at the Institute of Education, University of London, a position that he currently holds.

Equally, Roger has been a valuable contributor to a variety of other areas within the education sector. He has been on the editorial boards of numerous other journals, worked as Editor of Australian Disability Review, and been a member of the Department of Integrated Studies in Education and of the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology. Knowledge in all of these subject areas has enabled Roger to add a multitude of perspectives to International Journal of Inclusive Education, whilst ensuring that the main focus of the journal remains as was originally intended.

Roger is currently Professor of Inclusive Education at the Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication at the Institute of Education, University of London, a position that he took on after leaving Canada's McGill University in Montreal where he was the Dean of the Faculty of Education. Roger plans to continue to promote the international aspect to International Journal of Inclusive Education by encouraging submissions from authors all over the world, whilst giving his full support to the constant development of its utility. Whilst concentrating on a series of international journals, Roger has also held significant roles, not only in his home country of Australia, but in the United Kingdom and Canada as well. Formerly the Deputy Director General of the Queensland Department of Education at the University of Western Australia and Goldsmith College, London, Roger has been able to conduct the formulation and implementation of education policies, allowing the subject of inclusive education to develop further and move towards its ultimate objective.