Many years ago, in Denmark, there lived a man and his three sons. The eldest son knew the whole dictionary by heart. The middle son knew every word that had been printed in the newspapers for three years back. Hans, the youngest son, was quite different. He was not so learned as his brothers so everyone called him clumsy Hans. But it is clumsy Hans who wins the princess at the end of the story.

A Clumsy Encounter - Dyspraxia and Drawing

A Clumsy Encounter offers an interrogation of inclusive education by exploring the point at which dyspraxia and drawing from observation meet within formal learning environments. Drawing on stories of individual experience, this book seeks to promote the interrogation of implicit educational practices. Here the complexity of observational drawing is examined not within a closed community of art education but within the social and cultural domain of other critical debates within education, specifically those related to inclusion. Pupils do not experience inclusion and exclusion in the abstract but through discipline-based and situated practices.