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  • CHANGING EDUCATION SYSTEMS
    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 influencer...

    $999.00

  • INSIDE THE AUTONOMOUS SCHOOL
    MAIJA SALOKANGAS / MEL AINSCOW
    Over recent years, education systems across the globe have experimented with the concept of the autonomous school. This takes a variety of forms and the schools involved have different titles, such as charter schools in the USA, academies in England, free schools in Sweden and independent public schools in Australia. As this radical trend in policy gains momentum, Inside the Au...

    $999.00

  • PROMOTING EQUITY IN SCHOOLS
    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. Promoti...

    $999.00

  • STRUGGLES FOR EQUITY IN EDUCATION
    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 h...

    $1,139.00

  • CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
    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 e...

    $1,299.00

  • CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR CLASSROOM IMPROVEMENT
    DAVID HOPKINS / MICHAEL FIELDING / JOHN BERESFORD / MEL AINSCOW / MEL WEST
    First published in 1998. The research, practice and staff development activities in this book have come out of the Improving the Quality of Education for All project (IQEA), which emphases the importance of enhancing internal conditions in schools by building upon existing good practice. Materials developed to promote school-level conditions have already been described in a co...

    $1,399.00

  • DEVELOPING EQUITABLE EDUCATION SYSTEMS
    MEL AINSCOW / ALAN DYSON / SUE GOLDRICK / MEL WEST
    Despite consistent improvements in the school systems of over recent years, there are still too many children who miss out. It is not only children from disadvantaged backgrounds attending hard-pressed urban schools that the system is failing - even in the most successful schools there are often groups of learners whose experience of schooling is less than equitable. As a resul...

    $1,379.00

  • MAKING SPECIAL EDUCATION INCLUSIVE
    FARRELL, PETER / AINSCOW, MEL
    The aim of this book is to consider how schools and LEAs can develop inclusive policies and practices for students who experience a range of difficulties in learning or behavior. It highlights debates and contradictions about the realities of inclusion and suggests ways in which practice can move forward. The contributors look at key areas of development in special and inclusiv...

    $999.00

  • IMPROVING SCHOOLS, DEVELOPING INCLUSION
    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 ...

    $1,199.00

  • UNDERSTANDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS
    MEL AINSCOW
    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 prac...

    $1,139.00

  • FROM THEM TO US
    MEL AINSCOW
    Inclusive education has become a phrase with international currency shaping the content of conferences and national educational policies around the world. But what does it mean? Is it about including a special group of disabled learners or students seen to have 'special needs' (them) or is it concerned with making educational institutions inclusive, responsive to the diversity ...

    $1,279.00

  • TOWARDS SELF-IMPROVING SCHOOL SYSTEMS
    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...

    $1,399.00