En elevs erfarenheter av särskolan – En livsberättelse studie : ”Jag är minst lika normal som dom övriga om inte bättre.”

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to examine a student’s experiences from going to school in a segregated special school, called särskola. That is a special educational schools for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Furthermore, the study has examined a student’s experiences of exclusion and inclusion.  By doing a life story interview with a former student, who has experiences from both non-segregated school and segregated special school, särskola, the student’s experiences will come visible.  By using life story interview the aim is to gain access to a person’s experience of, in this study, schooling. The student is familiar with both non-segregated and segregated schools. Disabled or not, everyone is part of metanarratives that influences one’s life story, within these metanarratives it becomes clear what society demands of the intellectual disabled. The experiences of the student are analyzed through governing documents and other normative documents with critical theory. The result of the study indicates that there are obvious advantages and disadvantages with segregated schools from the student´s experiences. In the segregated school the student feels confident and feels that she has gained adequate knowledge in the different school subjects, but at the same the segregated special school create the experiences of exclusion.