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.

Christopher Chapman is Chair of Educational Policy and Practice at the University of Glasgow, and Director of Policy Scotland, United Kingdom. Mel Ainscow is Professor of Education at the University of Glasgow. He is also Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

Developing equitable education systems 2. Aiming for systemic change: the development of the agenda 3. The development of a methodology: perspectives and strategies 4. Promoting educational equity through collaborative inquiry 5. Lessons from the School Improvement Partnership Programme 6. Sustaining and scaling up a collaborative educational improvement approach: The Network for Social and Educational Equity 7. Focusing on place: working beyond the school gate 8. Building a capabilities framework with learners from high poverty neighbourhoods 9. Creating a learning system: possibilities and challenges 10. Finding pathways to educational equity