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Bourke, T., Alford, J., Mavropoulou, S., & Catalano, G. Interpretations of inclusive education in Australian policy: what’s the problem represented to be? (2025) Bourke, T., Alford, J., Mavropoulou, S., & Catalano, G. (2025). Interpretations of inclusive education in Australian policy: what’s the…

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Bourke, T., Alford, J., Mavropoulou, S., & Catalano, G. Interpretations of inclusive education in Australian policy: what’s the problem represented to be? (2025) Bourke, T., Alford, J., Mavropoulou, S., & Catalano, G. (2025). Interpretations of inclusive education in Australian policy: what’s the problem represented to be? International Journal of Inclusive Education, 1–20. ABSTRACT Policies encapsulate distilled values and have good intentions. However, how problems are represented and then interpreted and translated into practice is not always clear. In this paper, we used Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ (WPR) approach to analyse and critique the discourses present in three Australian states’ inclusive education documents to see how they represent General Comment No. http://michel-foucault.com/2025/07/16/bourke-t-alford-j-mavropoulou-s-catalano-g-interpretations-of-inclusive-education-in-australian-policy-whats-the-problem-represented-to-be-2025/