Use of evidence to promote inclusive education development commentary on Mel Ainscow. Promoting inclusion and equity in education
- In his essay, Mel Ainscow looks at inclusion and equity from an international perspective and makes suggestions on how to develop inclusive education in a ‘whole-system approach’. After discussing different conceptions of inclusion and equity, he describes international policies which address them. From this international macro-level, Ainscow zooms in to the meso-level of the school and its immediate environment, defining dimensions to be considered for an inclusive school development. One of these dimensions is the ‘use of evidence’. In my comment, I want to focus on this dimension and discuss its scope and the potential to apply it in inclusive education development. As a first and important precondition, Ainscow explains that different circumstances lead to different linguistic uses of the term ‘inclusive education’. Thus, the term ‘inclusive education’ does not refer to an identical set of objectives across countries, and neither does the term ‘equity’.
Author details: | Michel KniggeORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/20020317.2020.1730093 |
ISSN: | 2002-0317 |
Title of parent work (English): | Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy |
Subtitle (English): | Lessons from international experiences |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group |
Place of publishing: | London |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2020/03/04 |
Publication year: | 2020 |
Release date: | 2024/04/22 |
Tag: | education; evaluation; evidence; inclusion; practice |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Number of pages: | 4 |
First page: | 21 |
Last Page: | 24 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Bildungswissenschaften / Department für Inklusionspädagogik |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 872 |