Mobilisations of the intense interests of autistic children within special education classrooms.

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The proposed interdisciplinary study speaks to the ECY's commitment toattend to the societal challenge of Disability social justice in Education. Theproposed study's focus on mobilising autistic students' intense interests toinform new inclusive practices speaks to the ECY pathway's commitment toaddressing inequalities in educational provision, access and attainment.Rather than a barrier to learning, the proposed study seeks tode-pathologise intense interests as key to students' worldmaking, and soessential to a truly inclusive curriculum. Unlike extant research, whichprimarily targets mainstream education settings, the proposed study aimsto explore the roles of intense interest in specialist settings. Its use offilmmaking methods and proposal to work with multiple stakeholders (i.e.,children, families, and teachers) speaks to the ECY's commitment toengaging communities with arts-based methods. The proposed study'sintention to co-produce this research across these stakeholders speaks tothe ECY pathway's commitment to co-production (including learners andteachers as co-researchers). The reflective Lesson Study approachadopted in the study speaks to the ECY pathway's commitment toco-producing research with teachers, while its intention to produceContinual Professional Learning tools based on the research speaks to theECY's commitment to professional development for practitioners both in theschool and in the wider field of education.