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I am a doctoral student at the Department of Integrated Studies at McGill university. I'm from Vietnam. The name of my country would possibly have recalled some memories in some of you who have been there or who have known and involved in the past history of Vietnam in some ways. Like many Vietnamese people, I like to talk and learn about history, not in order to recall the struggles that many Vietnamese have gone through with pain and loss, but in order to know that we are located within a particular history which shapes our thinking about the intellectual work that we are pursuing.

My doctoral research involves the historical formation of inclusion discourse in Vietnamese education. In the same way that critical pedagogists have struggled to gain freedom and social justice against classism, racism, sexism, heterosexism, my notion of inclusivity is not restricted within forms of disablement in education. I believe that institutions always function to include and exclude individuals with difference. It is the recognition of "difference" and the meanings it constructs within the patterns of power dynamics that gives rise to what I may call a critical theory of inclusivity. 

Currently I wish to examine the social, cultural and historical forces that shape the emergence of inclusion as a discourse in educational policy in Vietnam. I am looking forward to chatting with you all.

Thuy Nguyen

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Thuy

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Nguyen

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