Reforming Education Systems for Inclusion and Equity

“Drawing on more than thirty years of work in different parts of the world, Mel Ainscow’s comprehensive approach provides key insights for educators, school leaders, and policymakers. He shows how practice-based, collaborative efforts can bring together those inside and outside schools to create the conditions that will make inclusive education a reality.” Thomas Hatch, Columbia University, USA “Mel Ainscow’s Reforming Education Systems for Inclusion and Equity provides an evidence and experience informed set of propositions for ensuring more inclusive and equitable schools and systems. It offers resources of hope for policy makers, school and community leaders and teachers aspiring towards such goals and, as such, should be necessary reading for all.” Bob Lingard, The University of Queensland, Australia “Reforming Education Systems for Inclusion and Equity is an excellent contribution to the study of how educational systems can promote the twin goals of inclusion and equity. Mel Ainscow is an internationally respected academic who has spent decades studying and working with schools in different contexts to promote school improvement.” Pamela Sammons, University of Oxford, UK “Developing and sustaining educational systems that meet the inseparable goals of equity and quality requires a research-informed commitment to inclusive policies, practices and mindsets. In this important book, Mel Ainscow provides a comprehensive framework and concrete examples for achieving this moral imperative.” Carmen Lucia Montecinos Sanhueza, Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile