Chapter 3: What Inclusive Practice Means for Students from Marginalized Groups: Interview With Sue Zake, PhD

Creating an education system built upon inclusive practices and grounded in social justice has become a moral imperative for some educators; this chapter presents the views of one such educator—Sue Zake, PhD. We (the authors of this chapter) interviewed Zake and used transcribed passages from her interview to both characterize the importance of fostering social justice education and to explore some of the challenges facing those who take on this necessary work. The chapter’s hybrid format—falling some-where between a synthetic essay and an interview transcript presented with commentary—uses Zake’s comments at length, not only as source material for revealing the key issues mentioned above but also as a way to characterize the perspectives of an important leader in the field of inclusive education.