The findings of this study show that integration has become a contentious term.
Teachers' attitudes are conflicting and often confusing while the directives embedded in
the teaching act, especially after the introduction of the Educational Reform Act, render
the commitment of inclusive education more difficult to maintain. Further, the
exploration of the meanings children ascribe to their interactional and perceptual
patternings with disabled peers revealed the ways that "handicapped" identities are
being socially created. The value conflicts and ethical dilemmas in which both teachers
and pupils are becoming enmeshed as well as the structural conditions within which
integration is implemented are discussed in an attempt to show that integration must
become a policy oriented towards its own destruction.