This Reader is the second of two set books for the Open University undergraduate course 'Equality, Participation and Inclusion: Learning from each other' and is a rich resource illustrating the diverse experiences and contexts in which children and young people experience issues of equality, participation and inclusion, with a particular emphasis on education.

Table of Contents:

Contents

1 Introduction Another place

John Parry, Jonty Rix, Rajni Kumrai and Chris Walsh

Part 1: More than one way

2 Reciprocal working by education, health and social services: lessons for a less-travelled road

Roy McConkey

3 Child and parent relationships with teachers in schools responsible for the education of children with serious medical conditions

Claire Norris and Alison Closs

4 Children’s homes and school exclusion: redefining the problem

Isabelle Brodie

5 Inclusion for the difficult to include

John Visser, Ted Cole and Harry Daniels

Part 2: Transitions: coming together

6 "We are the ones we have been waiting for": the work of community mobilisers in Milton Keynes

Katy Simmons, Alla Laerke, Danny Conway and Martin Woodhead

7 ‘Back to school’ - piloting an occupational therapy service in mainstream schools in the UK

Eve Hutton

8 Inclusion at Bangabandhu Primary School

Cathy Phillips and Helen Jenner

9 A personal perspective – developing a partnership approach at Deri View Primary School and Acorn Integrated Children’s Centre

Maggie Teague

10 Voices from segregated schooling: towards an inclusive education system

Tina Cook, John Swain and Sally French

11 Professional identity in multi-disciplinary teams: the staff speak

Ann Workman and Jeremy Pickard

Part 3: On the margins

12 Interviews with young people about behavioural support: equality, fairness and rights

Paul Hamill and Brian Boyd

13 Disadvantage and discrimination compounded: the experience of Pakistani and Bangladeshi parents of disabled children in the UK

Qulsom Fazil, Paul Bywaters, Zoebia Ali, Louise Wallace and Gurnam Singh

14 Teachers and Gypsy Travellers

Gwynedd Lloyd, Joan Stead, Elizabeth Jordan and Claire Norris

15 Peer support for young people with same-sex attraction

Colm Crowley, Susan Hallam, Rom Harre and Ingrid Lunt

16 Exclusion: a silent protest

Janet Collins

17 Media portrayal of young people – impact and influence,

Catherine Clark, Amrita Ghosh, Emrys Gree and Naushin Shariff

18 The impossibility of minority ethnic educational 'success'? An examination of the discourses of teachers and pupils in Britishs secondary schools

Louise Archer

Part 4: Thinking differently

19 Learning without limits

Susan Hart

20 Gender, ‘special educational needs’ and inclusion

Shereen Benjamin

21 ‘Part of who we are as a school should include responsibility for well-being’: links between the school environment, mental health and behaviour

Jennifer Spratt, Janet Shucksmith, Kate Philip and Cate Watson

22 Children and young people in hospitals: doing youth work in medical settings'

Scott Yates, Malcolm Payne, and Simon Dyson

23 Working in the community with young people who offend

Alice Sampson and Spyros Themelis