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1. Developing Equitable Education Systems

   By 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...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
2. Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries

   Edited by Carlo Raffo, Alan Dyson, Helen Gunter, Dave Hall, Lisa Jones, Afroditi Kalambouka

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   For the first time, researchers, policymakers and practitioners across the world will have access to a comprehensive mapping of research evidence and policy strategies about education and poverty in affluent countries. Although there is widespread agreement that poverty and poor educational...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
3. Beyond the School Gates

   Can Full Service and Extended Schools Overcome Disadvantage?

   By Colleen Cummings, Alan Dyson, Liz Todd

   This book, for the first time ever, critically examines the role of full service and extended schools. The authors draw on their extensive international evaluations of this radical new phenomenon to ask: What do extended or full service schools hope to achieve, and why should services based on...

   Published April 7th 2011 by Routledge
4. Improving Schools, Developing Inclusion

   By Mel Ainscow, Tony Booth, Alan Dyson

   Series: Improving Learning

   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...

   Published September 13th 2006 by Routledge
5. Theorising Special Education

   Edited by Catherine Clark, Alan Dyson, Alan Millward

   The field of special needs education is well established, and although it continues to develop in exciting and controversial ways, involving some of education's leading thinkers, many people feel it is lacking a coherent theoretical analysis of its own.Students and practitioners, looking for some...

   Published May 27th 1998 by Routledge