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Dr Christine Bower

Lecturer In Education (Inclusion)

School of Education, Childhood, Youth & Sport

christine.bower@open.ac.uk

Biography

Research interests

Christine's teaching and research interests are in inclusive education, philosophy of education, epistemic injustice, social justice, autism, disabilities, neurodiversity, children and young people, and participatory research methods. 

Publications

Book Chapter

The Power of Participatory Action Research to Hearing the Voices of Children With Disabilities in Conflict Situations. A Case Study From Palestine (2024)

Journal Article

Co-producing and participatory action research with young people who are autistic or have a learning disability: navigating institutional processes (2026)

‘Um, I was getting bullied at school because I didn’t believe in god’: one family’s experience of autism, school and home education (2021)

Barriers to Effective, Equitable and Quality Education: A Rights-based, Participatory Research Assessment of Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Palestine (2020)

Gratitude versus children's rights: An exploration mothers’ attitudes towards disability and inclusive education in Palestine (2020)