This volume provides an exciting introduction to social wellbeing and different epistemological standpoints. Targeted at researchers, students, academics, policy makers, practitioners and activists, the volume allows stakeholders to collectively problematise and address marginalised populations' social wellbeing, providing perspectives and applications from various disciplines such as education, health, public policy and social welfare. Chapters continue to debate social wellbeing within their disciplines, and challenges practitioners' and researchers' experience, particularly interactions between individual and social aspects of wellbeing. Contributors provide practical and academic discussions, drawing upon different cultural, historical, political and social paradigms, putting forward available empirical data. Contributors are: Andrew Azzopardi, Amanda Bezzina, Trevor Calafato, Joanne Cassar, Marlene Cauchi, Carmel Cefai, Marilyn Clark, Maureen Cole, Katya De Giovanni, Melanie E. Demarco, Andreana Dibben, Ruth Falzon, Marvin Formosa, Natalie Kenely, Dione Mifsud, Brenda Murphy, Claudia Psaila, Sandra Scicluna, Anabel Scolaro, Miriam Teuma, Anna Maria Vella, Sue Vella and Carla Willing,

This volume provides an exciting introduction to social wellbeing and different epistemological standpoints. Targeted at researchers, students, academics, policy makers, practitioners and activists, the volume allows stakeholders to collectively problematise and address marginalised populations' social wellbeing, providing perspectives and applications from various disciplines such as education, health, public policy and social welfare. Chapters continue to debate social wellbeing within their disciplines, and challenges practitioners' and researchers' experience, particularly interactions between individual and social aspects of wellbeing. Contributors provide practical and academic discussions, drawing upon different cultural, historical, political and social paradigms, putting forward available empirical data. Contributors are: Andrew Azzopardi, Amanda Bezzina, Trevor Calafato, Joanne Cassar, Marlene Cauchi, Carmel Cefai, Marilyn Clark, Maureen Cole, Katya De Giovanni, Melanie E. Demarco, Andreana Dibben, Ruth Falzon, Marvin Formosa, Natalie Kenely, Dione Mifsud, Brenda Murphy, Claudia Psaila, Sandra Scicluna, Anabel Scolaro, Miriam Teuma, Anna Maria Vella, Sue Vella and Carla Willing,

Inclusive education can be understood within a number of varied frameworks, namely, the cultural, historical, political and social paradigm keeping in mind that 'inclusion' is an elaborate interaction that is taking place within social structures and policy enactment. This Text will endeavour to interpret this combination of issues and decipher emerging problems contained in this complex intermix of inclusive education discourses. This Text also includes Thinking Points for every Chapter to encourage discussion and reflection. The Contributors in this work are; Ronald Balzan, Dr Andrew Azzopardi, Dr Duncan Mercieca, Amanda Muscat, George Borg, Louisa Grech, Philip Grech, Dr Elena Tanti Burlo', Charmaine Agius Ferrante, Lara Jane Grillo, Sue Anne Pizzuto, Ruth Falzon, Dr Paul Bartolo, Dr Carmel Cefai, Dr Toby Brandon, Claire Lucille Azzopardi Lane, Liliana Maric and Shaun Grech with a Foreward by Professor Susan Gabel.

Examining the historical context of disability politics provides a scenario in understanding the direction that activism is to take in the years to come in Malta. Disability issues are based on the recognition of human rights as being the main ingredient in moulding an inclusive society. The focus of this work points towards the development of a disability coalition controlled by a new generation of disabled activists.

In writing this work I have tried to get beneath the clichs of disability metaphors to reveal the social constructions surrounding this theme. In this research, I have sought to understand "inclusion" within the various experiences I am engaged with in my professional and academic responsibilities. "Inclusion" also needs to be understood within an assortment of perspectives.Being an ocular-centred community, we need to see what is happening and to read stories that are close to the reality we are succumbed in. These are stories that transcend from the people to the people, rather than from the researchers/academics to researchers/academics. That is why this work becomes the process of not only identifying the complex dynamics and snags surrounding the "inclusion" agenda I am engrossed in, but also maps out a way to get back on trail and to come up with the answers.