Exklusion inklusive

This chapter focuses on potentials and barriers for the social inclusion of students with disabilities, connecting the current state of the art in this field of research with empirical findings from one of the authors research projects (Sigot 2017) as well as current insights into local developments in inclusion discourse. The mostly underrepresented perspectives of (former) students with disabilities and a sociocultural understanding of disability are central to our contribution. Thus, we define disability as a result of labeling, barriers and attitudes, contrary to common preoccupations with disability as personal tragedy. We conclude that recent changes in educational policy endanger social inclusion and might even promote a fallback into outdated practices of segregation.