Mel Ainscow
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3486490 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mel Ainscow |
| NOMBRES | Mel |
| APELLIDO | Ainscow |
| FIRMA | AINSCOW M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0449-9668 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 231 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Educación inclusiva
En los últimos treinta años, la educación inclusiva se ha convertido en una preocupación importante a nivel mundial. Sin embargo, sigue habiendo una considerable confusión en el campo sobre lo que se entiende por este término. Este artículo busca arrojar luz sobre lo que implica trazando la historia de su evolución. Comenzando con una breve revisión de los hitos internacionales que han dado forma a lo que ahora se suele denominar inclusión y equi…
Three decades on from Salamanca
Developing inclusive and equitable education systems
This paper addresses one of the greatest challenges facing education systems globally, that of making progress in relation to inclusion and equity in schools. Building on the findings of a programme of international collaborative action research carried out over the last twenty years, it reports on a pilot study carried out in Uruguay using professional learning materials developed by UNESCO. This points to the potential of a strategy for moving …
Promoting Equity in Market-Driven Education Systems
There is a global trend towards the use of market-driven approaches as a strategy for educational reform. However, this is creating new barriers to the promotion of equity in some countries. Focusing on England as an extreme example of this approach, this paper points to some possibilities for addressing this concern. It reports findings from a series of studies in high poverty contexts in England. These studies have typically involved local educ…
Student diversity and student voice conceptualisations in five European countries
This article analyses the ways in which notions of student diversity and student voice are defined in five European countries, two terms directly related to notions of inclusion. In so doing, it examines links between the two terms, noting that, often, they are used in international research without acknowledging the ways that they are defined within particular national contexts. Using literature and policy documents from five countries (i.e. Aus…
Educational Equity
Focusing on what can be done to promote equity within education systems, what the barriers to progress are and how these barriers might be overcome, this book provides detailed examples of strategies that have proved to be effective in addressing this challenge. Built on the work of the authors over the last three decades, the book presents an approach to educational change that will be relevant to different countries. The authors argue that ther…
Inclusive Inquiry
This article describes Inclusive Inquiry, a new approach that emerged from our earlier work, particularly two interconnected studies funded by the European Union. These studies were conducted in primary and secondary schools in five countries. We explain how the approach was developed, using examples from schools that were involved. A particular feature of the approach is the involvement of students in schools as researchers, who collaborate with…
Promoting inclusion and equity in education
This paper focuses on a major challenge facing education systems around the world, that of finding ways of including all children in schools. In economically poorer countries this is mainly about the millions of children who are not able to attend formal education (UNESCO, 2015). Meanwhile, in wealthier countries many young people leave school with no worthwhile qualifications, whilst others are placed in special provision away from mainstream ed…
Inclusion and equity in education
This article provides an introductory commentary to the papers in this Prospects special issue on inclusive education. In so doing, it stresses the need to be cautious as we read accounts of inclusive education from other parts of the world: whilst lessons can undoubtedly be learned from the accounts in this special issue, they must be adopted with care. There is no doubt that evidence of various kinds can help in identifying the barriers facing …
Educational inclusion and equity in Latin America
Desarrollo de una guía para promover un e-learning inclusivo en educación superior
Este artículo describe el desarrollo de una estrategia para promover la inclusión en entornos virtuales de aprendizaje en educación superior. La estrategia es una adaptación del Índice para la Inclusión, un instrumento ampliamente utilizado en los centros educativos. Se adoptó la forma de guía, que puede ser usada para fomentar el diálogo entre el equipo docente y de gestión para reflexionar en torno a cómo crear culturas inclusivas, producir pol…
Inclusive Inquiry
This article traces the development of Inclusive Inquiry, a new approach to the promotion of inclusion in schools. It explains how this builds on a programme of research carried out by the authors over a period of 20 years. Central to the approach is dialogue amongst teachers and their students about how to make lessons more inclusive. This involves children becoming researchers who learn how to use research techniques to gather the views of thei…
Using research to promote equity within education systems
This article provides an evaluative account of its authors’ involvement in three major national improvement initiatives. Set in the context of three of the countries that make up the UK, these developments were focused in particular on the promotion of educational equity. Unusually, the analysis provided compares evidence collected from an insider perspective with data generated through independent evaluations. In so doing, it considers how resea…
Engaging with the views of students to promote inclusion in education
Guiding schools on their journey towards inclusion
Inclusion is increasingly recognised as a major driving force for educational reform and is a central goal of the international political agenda. This paper describes and analyzes how a group of schools in one region of Spain trialled a newly developed review instrument, named ‘Themis’, with the aim of guiding their efforts to promote greater inclusion. In so doing, the paper focuses on how schools can be helped to review progress on their journe…
Responding to learner diversity
Using teacher development to foster inclusive classroom practices
Developing inclusive education systems
Including all children in education is the major challenge facing educational systems around the world, in both developing and developed countries. Drawing on research evidence and ideas from a range of international literature, this paper argues that leadership practice is a crucial element in gearing education systems towards inclusive values and bringing about sustainable change. In so doing, the paper considers the organisational conditions t…
Making Education for All inclusive
Improving Schools, Developing Inclusion
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 inclusi…
Desarrollo de Sistemas Educativos Inclusivos
Desarrollo de escuelas inclusivas
La educación inclusiva como derecho
Existe un creciente interes en todo el mundo por la idea de una “educacion inclusiva”. En paises mas ricos, muchos jovenes terminan la escuela sin tener aptitudes significativas, otros son dirigidos hacia distintos tipos de alternativas que les privan de la experiencia de una educacion formal, y otros sencillamente deciden abandonar la escuela pues consideran que las lecciones que esta ofrece son irrelevantes en sus vidas. De ahi que el significa…
Guía para la evaluación y mejora de la educación inclusiva
Guía para la educación inclusiva
La guía, el Index en adelante, fue publicado por primera vez en el año 2000. Se desarrolló durante un período de tres años, con la ayuda de un equipo de profesores, padres de familia, directivos e investigadores, quienes en conjunto habían desarrollado distintas experiencias fomentando el desarrollo inclusivo de los centros escolares. En esa oportunidad, centros escolares piloto en Londres, el centro y el norte de Inglaterra realizaron contribuci…
Developing inclusive education systems
Developing inclusive education systems
Including all children in education is the major challenge facing educational systems around the world, in both developing and developed countries. Drawing on research evidence and ideas from a range of international literature, this paper argues that leadership practice is a crucial element in gearing education systems towards inclusive values and bringing about sustainable change. In so doing, the paper considers the organisational conditions t…
Understanding and developing inclusive practices in schools
This paper provides an account of the methodological lessons and emerging findings of a collaborative action research network in England. The Network involves teams of researchers from three universities in working alongside school and local education authority practitioners as they explore ways of developing more inclusive practices. The analysis of these experiences throws light on the nature of the tensions between national policies for raisin…
Inclusion and the standards agenda
This paper reports on some aspects of a collaborative action research project involving teams from 25 schools in England working with researchers from three universities in an attempt to understand how schools can develop more inclusive cultures, policies and practices. Unusually in this field, the schools were not selected because of any exceptional and explicit commitment to ‘inclusion’. A common process of development emerged across the school…
Responding to learner diversity
Understanding inclusion and exclusion in the English competitive education system
In this article the processes of inclusion and exclusion are explored in one secondary school. The interplay between processes within the school and the competitive changes within the English education system that have increased exclusionary pressures on some students are examined. The school includes students with visual disabilities and others categorized as having ‘severe learning difficulties’. The emphasis, however, is on how the school resp…
Guiding schools on their journey towards inclusion
Inclusion is increasingly recognised as a major driving force for educational reform and is a central goal of the international political agenda. This paper describes and analyzes how a group of schools in one region of Spain trialled a newly developed review instrument, named ‘Themis’, with the aim of guiding their efforts to promote greater inclusion. In so doing, the paper focuses on how schools can be helped to review progress on their journe…
Inclusive Inquiry
This article traces the development of Inclusive Inquiry, a new approach to the promotion of inclusion in schools. It explains how this builds on a programme of research carried out by the authors over a period of 20 years. Central to the approach is dialogue amongst teachers and their students about how to make lessons more inclusive. This involves children becoming researchers who learn how to use research techniques to gather the views of thei…
Developing policies for inclusive education
In many parts of the world there is evidence of initiatives aimed at finding ways of creating forms of mainstream schooling that can respond to pupils with disabilities and others seen as having special educational needs (UNESCO 1995). There is also a growing research literature that throws light on how schools and classrooms can be developed in relation to this idea (e.g. Rouse and Florian 1996, Sebba and Sachdev 1997, Thomas et al. 1998, Ainsco…
Using research to promote equity within education systems
This article provides an evaluative account of its authors’ involvement in three major national improvement initiatives. Set in the context of three of the countries that make up the UK, these developments were focused in particular on the promotion of educational equity. Unusually, the analysis provided compares evidence collected from an insider perspective with data generated through independent evaluations. In so doing, it considers how resea…
Developing inclusive and equitable education systems
This paper addresses one of the greatest challenges facing education systems globally, that of making progress in relation to inclusion and equity in schools. Building on the findings of a programme of international collaborative action research carried out over the last twenty years, it reports on a pilot study carried out in Uruguay using professional learning materials developed by UNESCO. This points to the potential of a strategy for moving …
Preventing Difficulties in Learning
Understanding inclusion and exclusion in the English competitive education system
In this article the processes of inclusion and exclusion are explored in one secondary school. The interplay between processes within the school and the competitive changes within the English education system that have increased exclusionary pressures on some students are examined. The school includes students with visual disabilities and others categorized as having ‘severe learning difficulties’. The emphasis, however, is on how the school resp…
Developing policies for inclusive education
In many parts of the world there is evidence of initiatives aimed at finding ways of creating forms of mainstream schooling that can respond to pupils with disabilities and others seen as having special educational needs (UNESCO 1995). There is also a growing research literature that throws light on how schools and classrooms can be developed in relation to this idea (e.g. Rouse and Florian 1996, Sebba and Sachdev 1997, Thomas et al. 1998, Ainsco…
Understanding and developing inclusive practices in schools
This paper provides an account of the methodological lessons and emerging findings of a collaborative action research network in England. The Network involves teams of researchers from three universities in working alongside school and local education authority practitioners as they explore ways of developing more inclusive practices. The analysis of these experiences throws light on the nature of the tensions between national policies for raisin…
From Them to Us
From Them to Us
Developing inclusive education systems
Improving Schools, Developing Inclusion
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 inclusi…
Inclusive education ten years after Salamanca
Inclusion and the standards agenda
This paper reports on some aspects of a collaborative action research project involving teams from 25 schools in England working with researchers from three universities in an attempt to understand how schools can develop more inclusive cultures, policies and practices. Unusually in this field, the schools were not selected because of any exceptional and explicit commitment to ‘inclusion’. A common process of development emerged across the school…
Making Education for All inclusive
Using teacher development to foster inclusive classroom practices
Developing inclusive education systems
Including all children in education is the major challenge facing educational systems around the world, in both developing and developed countries. Drawing on research evidence and ideas from a range of international literature, this paper argues that leadership practice is a crucial element in gearing education systems towards inclusive values and bringing about sustainable change. In so doing, the paper considers the organisational conditions t…
Responding to learner diversity
Engaging with the views of students to promote inclusion in education
Guiding schools on their journey towards inclusion
Inclusion is increasingly recognised as a major driving force for educational reform and is a central goal of the international political agenda. This paper describes and analyzes how a group of schools in one region of Spain trialled a newly developed review instrument, named ‘Themis’, with the aim of guiding their efforts to promote greater inclusion. In so doing, the paper focuses on how schools can be helped to review progress on their journe…
Using research to promote equity within education systems
This article provides an evaluative account of its authors’ involvement in three major national improvement initiatives. Set in the context of three of the countries that make up the UK, these developments were focused in particular on the promotion of educational equity. Unusually, the analysis provided compares evidence collected from an insider perspective with data generated through independent evaluations. In so doing, it considers how resea…
Promoting inclusion and equity in education
This paper focuses on a major challenge facing education systems around the world, that of finding ways of including all children in schools. In economically poorer countries this is mainly about the millions of children who are not able to attend formal education (UNESCO, 2015). Meanwhile, in wealthier countries many young people leave school with no worthwhile qualifications, whilst others are placed in special provision away from mainstream ed…
Inclusion and equity in education
This article provides an introductory commentary to the papers in this Prospects special issue on inclusive education. In so doing, it stresses the need to be cautious as we read accounts of inclusive education from other parts of the world: whilst lessons can undoubtedly be learned from the accounts in this special issue, they must be adopted with care. There is no doubt that evidence of various kinds can help in identifying the barriers facing …
Educational inclusion and equity in Latin America
Desarrollo de una guía para promover un e-learning inclusivo en educación superior
Este artículo describe el desarrollo de una estrategia para promover la inclusión en entornos virtuales de aprendizaje en educación superior. La estrategia es una adaptación del Índice para la Inclusión, un instrumento ampliamente utilizado en los centros educativos. Se adoptó la forma de guía, que puede ser usada para fomentar el diálogo entre el equipo docente y de gestión para reflexionar en torno a cómo crear culturas inclusivas, producir pol…
Inclusive Inquiry
This article traces the development of Inclusive Inquiry, a new approach to the promotion of inclusion in schools. It explains how this builds on a programme of research carried out by the authors over a period of 20 years. Central to the approach is dialogue amongst teachers and their students about how to make lessons more inclusive. This involves children becoming researchers who learn how to use research techniques to gather the views of thei…
Educational Equity
Focusing on what can be done to promote equity within education systems, what the barriers to progress are and how these barriers might be overcome, this book provides detailed examples of strategies that have proved to be effective in addressing this challenge. Built on the work of the authors over the last three decades, the book presents an approach to educational change that will be relevant to different countries. The authors argue that ther…
Inclusive Inquiry
This article describes Inclusive Inquiry, a new approach that emerged from our earlier work, particularly two interconnected studies funded by the European Union. These studies were conducted in primary and secondary schools in five countries. We explain how the approach was developed, using examples from schools that were involved. A particular feature of the approach is the involvement of students in schools as researchers, who collaborate with…
Promoting Equity in Market-Driven Education Systems
There is a global trend towards the use of market-driven approaches as a strategy for educational reform. However, this is creating new barriers to the promotion of equity in some countries. Focusing on England as an extreme example of this approach, this paper points to some possibilities for addressing this concern. It reports findings from a series of studies in high poverty contexts in England. These studies have typically involved local educ…
Political science (24 obras) · Sociology (21 obras) · Pedagogy (19 obras) · Social science (16 obras) · Public relations (15 obras) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (12 obras) · Education Systems and Policy (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Inclusive Education and Diversity (9 obras) · Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion (8 obras)