Selected publications
Allan, J and Sturm, T (forthcoming, May 2018) School development and inclusion in England and Germany in B Hamre, A Morin and C Ydesen (Eds) Testing and inclusive schooling. London: Routledge
Allan, J (2017) The inclusion challenge. Scuola Democratica. Learning for Democracy, No. 1, p175-182, https://www.rivisteweb.it/issn/1129-731X/issue/7155
Allan, J and Artiles, A (Eds) (2017) The Routledge World Yearbook in Education. London: Routledge.
Allan, J and Persson, E (2016) Students’ perspectives on raising achievement through inclusion in Essunga, Sweden, Educational Review, 68 (1), pp. 82-95. doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2015.1058752
Allan, J and Harwood, V (2016) The risk factors for psy-diagnosis? Gender, racialization and social class. In E Bendix Petersen and Z Millei (Eds) Interrupting the psy-disciplines in education. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Barow, T, Persson, B & Allan, J (2016) Inclusive education in Großbritannien und Skandinavien. In H Ingeborg, G Biewer, J Hollenweger & R Markowetz (Eds) Handbuch inclusion and sonderpädagogik. Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt.
Allan, J (2016) At tænke inclusion anderledes. In B Hamre og V Larsen (red) Inclusion, udsathed og tværprofessionelt samarbejde. Friederiksberg: Frydenlund Academic.
Allan, J (2015) Critiquing policy: Limitations and possibilities. In D Connor, J Valle and C Hale (eds) Practicing disability studies in education: Acting towards social change. New York: Peter Lang.
Allan, J (2015) Waiting for inclusive education? An exploration of conceptual confusions and political struggles. In F Kiuppis and R S Hausstätter (eds) Inclusive education twenty years after Salamanca. New York: Peter Lang.
Harwood, V and Allan, J (2014) Psychopathology at school: Theorizing mental disorder in schools. London: Routledge.
Allan, J (2014) Making a difference – in theory – in Sweden and the UK. Education Inquiry, 5 (3), http://www.education-inquiry.net/index.php/edui/article/view/24609
Allan, J (2014) Inclusive education and the arts. Cambridge Journal of Education, 44 (4), 511-523.
Allan, J and Catts, R. (2014) Schools, space and social capital. Cambridge Journal of Education. DOI: 10.1080/0305764X.2013.863829
Allan, J, and Harwood, V (2013) Medicus interruptus in the behaviour of children in disadvantaged contexts in Scotland. British Journal of Sociology of Education. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2013.776933
Biesta, G, Allan, J and Edwards, R (2013) (Eds) Making a difference in theory: The theory question in education and the education question in theory. London: Routledge.
Fox, A and Allan, J (2013) Doing reflexivity: Moments of unbecoming and becoming. International Journal of Research and Method in Education. DOI: 10.1080/1743727X.2013.787407
Allan J and Catts R (2012) (eds) Social capital, children and young people: Implications for practice, policy and research. Bristol: Policy Press.
Allan, J (2012) Introduction in Persson, B and Persson, E Includering och måluppfyllelse: all nå framgång med alla elever (Inclusion and achievement: The success of all students). Stockholm: Liber.
Allan, J (2012) Foucault and his acolytes: Discourse, power and ethics. In M. Murphy (ed) Social Theory and Education Research: Understanding Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu and Derrida. London: Routledge.
Allan, J (2011) Responsibly competent: Teaching, ethics and diversity, Policy Futures in Education, 9 (1), 152-159. DOI :10.2304/pfie.2011.9.1.130
Allan, J (2011) Complicating, not explicating: Taking up philosophy in learning disability research, Learning Disability Quarterly, 34 (2), 153-161.
Allan, J (2011) Civilising teacher education? Learning with diversity, Teacher Education Practice, 24 (3), 351-353.
Biesta, J, Allan, J and Edwards, R (2011) The theory question in research capacity building in education: Towards an agenda for research and practice, British Journal of Educational Studies, 59 (3), 225-239. DOI:
10.1080/00071005.2011.599793
Allan, J (2010) The sociology of disability and the struggle for inclusive education, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31 (5), 603-619. DOI:10.1080/01425692.2010.500093
Allan, J, Ozga, J and Smyth, G (2009) (eds) Social capital, professionalism and diversity. Rotterdam: Sense.
Allan, J (2008) Rethinking inclusion: The philosophers of difference in practice. Dordrecht: Springer.
Allan, J and Slee, R (2008) Doing inclusive education research. Rotterdam: Sense
Allan, J, Duffy, C, Loening, G and Moran, N (2010) Knowledge exchange with Sistema Scotland, Journal of Educational Policy, 25 (3), 335-347. DOI: 10.1080/02680931003646196
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