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Struggles for Equity in Education

The selected works of Mel Ainscow

By: Mel Ainscow

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Struggles for Equity in Education

The selected works of Mel Ainscow

By: Mel Ainscow

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field. Spanning Mel Ainscow’s accomplished 30 year international career in education, the texts in this book trace his efforts to find ways of fostering more equitable forms of education. This has involved a series of struggles as he has experimented with different approaches - in a variety of contexts - to find new possibilities for responding to learner diversity. Over the years this has related to a variety of headline themes, starting from special education, through to integration, on to inclusive education, and then, more recently, educational equity. The readings have been chosen to illustrate the changes that have occurred in Ainscow’s thinking and practices and a short introduction is provided for each chapter that is intended to help readers to understand the significance of what is presented and how this relates to other chapters in the book. The writings in this text reinforce the idea that the promotion of equity in schools is essentially a social process that has to occur within particular contexts.

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Struggles for Equity in Education

The selected works of Mel Ainscow

By: Mel Ainscow

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Creating the Conditions for School Improvement

A Handbook of Staff Development Activities

By: Mel Ainscow,John Beresford,Alma Harris,David Hopkins,Geoff Southworth,Mel West

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Creating the Conditions for School Improvement

A Handbook of Staff Development Activities

By: Mel Ainscow,John Beresford,Alma Harris,David Hopkins,Geoff Southworth,Mel West

First Published in 2001. This is the second edition of this school’s improvement handbook of staff development activities by the IQEA (Improving Education for All) project. This book is not about what changes should be introduced into a school but rather about creating the conditions for supporting those changes which schools or individuals believe should be introduced. To be effective at managing change schools and teachers need to modify the internal conditions of the school at the same time as introducing changes in teaching or curriculum. The book therefore provides ideas and materials to help colleagues in school to create such conditions and suggests a strategic approach.

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1134116780

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Promoting Equity in Schools

Collaboration, Inquiry and Ethical Leadership

By: Jess Harris,Suzanne Carrington,Mel Ainscow

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Promoting Equity in Schools

Collaboration, Inquiry and Ethical Leadership

By: Jess Harris,Suzanne Carrington,Mel Ainscow

Around the world, countries are searching for ways of making their schools more effective for all children and young people. This book offers a new way of thinking about how to address this challenge. It sees improvement as requiring a collective effort that involves contributions from all members of a school community. Crucial to this is the idea of ethical leadership. Promoting Equity in Schools is written by a team of academic researchers who had a most unusual opportunity to work with a network of schools over three years, experimenting to find more effective ways of including hard to reach learners. Bringing together practitioner knowledge and ideas from research carried out from a variety of perspectives, the authors provide rich accounts of what happened when the schools attempted to become more inclusive and fairer. In so doing, they throw light on the challenges this presents for school leaders. The accounts presented in the book are located in Queensland, Australia, where the school system faces significant difficulties in relation to equity that resonate with similar difficulties around the world. These difficulties relate to policies that emphasize high-stakes testing and school choice, which tend to promote increased segregation, to the particular disadvantage of young people from low income and minority backgrounds. The arguments presented suggest that even where worrying policies are in place, with leadership driven by a commitment to equity, schools can still find space to develop more equitable ways of working.

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1351601792

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Towards Self-improving School Systems

Lessons from a city challenge

By: Mel Ainscow

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Towards Self-improving School Systems

Lessons from a city challenge

By: Mel Ainscow

This important new book draws lessons from a large-scale initiative to bring about the improvement of an urban education system. Written from an insider perspective by an internationally recognized researcher, it presents a new way of thinking about system change. This builds on the idea that there are untapped resources within schools and the communities they serve that can be mobilized in order to transform schools from places that do well for some children so that they can do well for many more. Towards Self-improving School Systems presents a strategic framework that can help to foster new, more fruitful working relationships: between national and local government; within and between schools; and between schools and their local communities. What is distinctive in the approach is that this is mainly led from within schools, with senior staff having a central role as system leaders. The book will be relevant to a wide range of readers throughout the world who are concerned with the strengthening of their national educational systems, including teachers, school leaders, policy makers and researchers. The argument it presents is particularly important for the growing number of countries where increased emphasis on school autonomy, competition and choice is leading to fragmentation within education provision. Foreword by Andy Hargreaves, Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education, Boston College, USA

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1317816765

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Changing Education Systems

A Research-based Approach

By: Mel Ainscow,Christopher Chapman,Mark Hadfield

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Changing Education Systems

A Research-based Approach

By: Mel Ainscow,Christopher Chapman,Mark Hadfield

As countries seek to develop their education systems, achieving sustainable improvements amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds remains a major challenge. This has considerable implications for those in the research community as they seek to influence developments in the field. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experiences as researchers, policy advisers and influencers, Changing Education Systems offers key insights on how to promote equity within education systems. Exploring three large-scale national reform programmes, the book: Presents a series of propositions that are the basis of a research-based approach to system change Explains the creation of relationships in which academic researchers collaborate in the process of development Considers smaller place-based projects that are set within policy contexts dominated by the idea of market forces as a strategy for improvement Explores the steps needed to overcome locally specific barriers Changing Education Systems is a must-read for policy-makers and practitioners involved in educational reforms, as well as researchers wishing to contribute to and learn from such developments.

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1000706397

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Understanding the Development of Inclusive Schools

By: Mel Ainscow

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Understanding the Development of Inclusive Schools

By: Mel Ainscow

This book compares and contrasts special needs approaches with school effectiveness strategies and sets out theories about inclusive schooling that arise out of a detailed scrutiny of practice.

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Psychology Press

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0750707356

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Understanding the Development of Inclusive Schools

By: Mel Ainscow

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The current emphasis on individualised intervention programmes for students with special needs may not only be impractical, but also undesirable. This book compares and contrasts special needs approaches with school effectiveness strategies. The author sets out theories about inclusive schooling that arise out of a detailed scrutiny of practice. The link between theory and practice will be welcomed by many practitioners. With extensive examples from the field to illustrate Ainscow's ideas, this is an eminently accessible text.

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Developing Equitable Education Systems

By: Mel Ainscow,Alan Dyson,Sue Goldrick,Mel West

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Developing Equitable Education Systems

By: Mel Ainscow,Alan Dyson,Sue Goldrick,Mel West

1. The challenge of equity in education -- 2. Using evidence to promote more equitable practice in schools -- 3. The development of an equity research network -- 4. Making schools equitable -- 5. Making sense of the process -- 6. Assessing the impact -- 7. Drawing out the lessons -- 8. Rethinking the tasks.

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1136733612

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Improving Urban Schools: Leadership And Collaboration

Leadership and Collaboration

By: Ainscow, Mel,West, Mel

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Improving Urban Schools: Leadership And Collaboration

Leadership and Collaboration

By: Ainscow, Mel,West, Mel

Drawing on research evidence, Improving Urban Schools addresses the question of how primary and secondary urban schools can be improved in a more inclusive way. The authors argue that urban schools and their communities have within them expertise that tends to be overlooked, and latent creativity that should be mobilised to move thinking and progress forward. They show that new approaches to leadership, various forms of collaborative school-to-school partnerships, and major changes in national policy development are needed to make use of this untapped energy.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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033521911X

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Improving Schools, Developing Inclusion

By: Mel Ainscow,Tony Booth,Alan Dyson

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Improving Schools, Developing Inclusion

By: Mel Ainscow,Tony Booth,Alan Dyson

While many books explore the possibilities for developing inclusive practices in schools, and ‘inclusion’ is widely regarded as a desirable goal, much of the literature on the subject has been narrowly concerned with the inclusion of pupils with special educational needs. This book however, takes the view that marginalisation, exclusion and underachievement take many forms and affect many different kinds of child. As such, a definition of inclusion should also touch upon issues of equity, participation, community, entitlement, compassion, respect for diversity and sustainability. Here the highly regarded authors focus on: barriers to participation and learning experienced by pupils the practices that can overcome these barriers the extent to which such practices facilitate improved learning outcomes how such practices can be encouraged and sustained within schools and LEAs. The book is part of the Improving Learning series, published in partnership with the Teaching and Learning Research Project.

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Promoting Equity in Schools

Collaboration, Inquiry and Ethical Leadership

By: Jess Harris,Suzanne Carrington,Mel Ainscow

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Collaboration, Inquiry and Ethical Leadership

By: Jess Harris,Suzanne Carrington,Mel Ainscow

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Collaboration and Networking in Education

By: Daniel Muijs,Mel Ainscow,Chris Chapman,Mel West

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Collaboration and Networking in Education

By: Daniel Muijs,Mel Ainscow,Chris Chapman,Mel West

Collaboration and networking have recently come to the fore as major school improvement strategies in a number of countries. A variety of initiatives, from government and other agencies, have encouraged collaboration and led to a lot of practical activity in this area. However, at present there are no texts in education that explore collaboration and networking from both a theoretical and practical perspective. In this book, we aim to provide a theoretical background to educational collaboration, drawing on research and theory in policy studies, psychology and sociology, leading ultimately to a typology of networks. This theoretical base will be tested in the discussion of a number of case studies referring to specific initiatives such as the Federations programme, multi-agency collaboration and Networked Learning Communities. Lessons for practice will be drawn and presented in terms of factors internal and external to the school. The key issue of network leadership will be addressed here as well.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400702833

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EBOOK: Improving Urban Schools: Leadership and Collaboration

By: Mel Ainscow,Mel West

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EBOOK: Improving Urban Schools: Leadership and Collaboration

By: Mel Ainscow,Mel West

The improvement of urban schools is one of the major challenges facing practitioners and policy-makers today. Issues related to poverty create particular difficulties in urban schools, and the emphasis on market-led improvement strategies has tended to add to these challenges. In addition, strategies for ‘raising standards’, as measured by aggregate test and examination results, can result in marginalisation or exclusion of some groups of learners. Drawing on research evidence, Improving Urban Schools addresses the question of how primary and secondary urban schools can be improved in a more inclusive way. The authors argue that urban schools and their communities have within them expertise that tends to be overlooked, and latent creativity that should be mobilised to move thinking and progress forward. They show that new approaches to leadership, various forms of collaborative school-to-school partnerships, and major changes in national policy development are needed to make use of this untapped energy. The book includes vivid accounts of these activities to shed light on what really happens in urban schools, and presents practical strategies for school leaders and practitioners who want to make a difference in urban schools.

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Index for Inclusion

Developing Learning, Participation and Play in Early Years and Childcare

By: Tony Booth,Mel Ainscow,Denise Kingston

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Developing Learning, Participation and Play in Early Years and Childcare

By: Tony Booth,Mel Ainscow,Denise Kingston

The Index involves a self-review of all aspects of a setting, drawing on additional help as needed. It encourages the involvement in inclusive development of all staff, volunteers, management committee/governors, children, young people and their parents/carers.Resources for, and barriers to, play, learning and participation are identified during the Index process. Actions to assist inclusion are prioritised, and a development plan is drawn up, implemented and reviewed. These changes are sustained in the setting as the process is repeated.

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1872001432

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Index for Inclusion

Developing Learning and Participation in Schools

By: Tony Booth,Mel Ainscow

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Developing Learning and Participation in Schools

By: Tony Booth,Mel Ainscow

In the Index, inclusion is about the education of all children and young people... offers schools a supportive process of self-review and development, which draws on the views of staff, governors, students and parents/carers, as well as other members of the surrounding communities. It involves a detailed examination of how barriers to learning and participation can be reduced for any student"--P. 1.

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Changing Education Systems

A Research-based Approach

By: Mel Ainscow,Christopher Chapman,Mark Hadfield

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A Research-based Approach

By: Mel Ainscow,Christopher Chapman,Mark Hadfield

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Encouraging Classroom Success

By: Mel Ainscow,David A. Tweddle

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Encouraging Classroom Success

By: Mel Ainscow,David A. Tweddle

This collection of essays -- each of which treats an integral aspect of the field -- defines several key concepts and their interrelationships, outlines basic research issues, and discusses near-term applications projects. The book examines three foundations of ITSs in detail -- expert, student diagnostic, and instructional or curricular knowledge -- and describes: * How they are embodied in computer-assisted instructional environments * How these systems accrue the advantages of advanced computer interface technologies * How ITSs will emerge in the real world of complex problem solving * How researchers must learn to evaluate the effectiveness and overall quality of these dynamic systems in a world where machine tutoring may one day be taken for granted. Justine Wise Polier (1903-1987) was educated at Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, and Barnard. She earned her law degree from Yale Law School where she was editor of the Yale Law Journal. In 1935, she was appointed Justice of the Family Court where she sat for 38 years. Judge Polier took a leave from the bench in 1941 when she was appointed special advisor to Eleanor Roosevelt at the Office of Civilian Defense in Washington. She also served as Chairman of the Committee on Mental Health for New York. Judge Polier was a founder and president of the Wiltwyck School; vice president of the Citizens Committee for Children of N.Y.; vice president of the American Jewish Congress; Delegate to the White House Conferences on Children and on Education. Judge Polier was a member of the Institute of Judicial Administration, American Bar Association. She was on the editorial board of the International Juridical Association and was awarded the 1964 Isaac Ray Award by the American Psychiatric Association for contributions to the improvement of the relations of Law and Psychiatry. Following her retirement from the bench, she served as the director of the Juvenile Judge division of the Children's Defense Fund. During her illustrious career, Judge Polier was the recipient of numerous awards including: the Citation for Distinguished Service to the City of New York, 1973; the Human Services Award from the New York and Bronx Mental Health Association, 1973; the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award from the Board of Directors of Wiltwyck School, 1975. Judge Polier also published numerous reports and several books including: Everyone's Children, Nobody's Child; Back to What Woodshed?; A View from the Bench; and The Rule of Law and the Role of Psychiatry.

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