1st Edition
Responding to Diversity in Schools An Inquiry-Based Approach
1. Learning about diversity Mel Ainscow and Susie Miles Part 1: Analysing contexts 2. Using children’s drawings to explore barriers to inclusion in Cyprus Annita Eliadou 3. Understanding the role of leadership in responding to diversity Michele Moore 4. Reflecting on the experience of mainstream education: exploring pupils’ views in a Pupil Referral Unit Debra Martin 5. Understanding the challenges facing a child with communication difficulties in a primary school Clare Millington 6. Promoting student voice in an isolated community in India Harriet Rowley and Sarah Butson Part 2: Making interruptions 7. Too young to have a voice? Exploring how to include very young children in a school council Emma Lindley, Rosanne Brinkhuis and Linda Verhaar 8. Involving young children in behaviour management strategies: a classroom-based inquiry Pamela Aspin 9. Using the views of students to rethink: a collaborative inquiry in a further education college Hannah Scott 10. Making meanings: A talk-based inquiry into adolescent understandings of mental illness Emma Lindley Part 3: Creating conversations 11. Using drawings to explore children’s aspirations in a primary school Felicity Chambers, Maria Machalepis and Myriam Mojica Martinez 12. Researching student voice in a special school: insider/outsider dilemmas of power, ethics and loyalties Zoe O’Riordan and Malcolm Williams 13. Collaborative inquiry: what’s in it for schools? Abha Sandill 14. Learning through inquiry Susie Miles and Mel Ainscow Appendix: ‘School-based inquiry and development’: an innovative approach to professional learning
Biography
Susie Miles is Programme Director of the M.Ed degree in Inclusive Education at the University of Manchester, UK.
Mel Ainscow is Professor of Education and Co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education at the University of Manchester, UK.
"I would...highly recommend this comprehensive and lucid text to teachers, student teachers and school leaders who were interested in the theory, research and practice of inclusion and diversity." - NASEN Journal, 2011
