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SUMMARY:Promoting educational development: lessons with the Index for Incl
 usion locally and internationally - Professor Tony Booth\, University of C
 ambridge Faculty of Education
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CONTACT:Bryony Horsley-Heather
DESCRIPTION:Intervening in the lives of others is perennially problematic.
  As practitioners\, policy makers\, academics and researchers\, we fantasi
 se that our inspiration\, ideas\, writing\, and action will promote transf
 ormative change\, yet without power to force compliance\, we may find our 
 results disappointing. Sometimes we look hopefully at the role we can play
  in the practice of others at the same time as we recognise the barriers t
 o changing our own contexts. Yet I will suggest that it is worth adding to
  the mountain of writings on educational improvement\, development\, effec
 tiveness and quality. I define development as change in accordance with pa
 rticular values. I suggest that clarity of concepts and values\, an acknow
 ledgment of the significance of cultures and development processes\, a rec
 ognition of shared purposes and the assiduous tracking of the range of the
  practical implications of these concerns for educational systems and sett
 ings may increase possibilities to reduce the messiness of practice and ta
 ke it in intended directions.\n \nI will illustrate how these ideas are em
 bedded in the new edition of ‘the Index for Inclusion\; developing learn
 ing and participation in schools’. The Index for Inclusion seems to assi
 st the link between the common concerns of insiders and outsiders to educa
 tional settings. In a major addition\, in this recent work\, I have provid
 ed a detailed outline for an alternative way of structuring teaching and l
 earning activities. I will report on some of the ways the Index for Inclus
 ion has been used to initiate developments locally within Norfolk and with
 in other countries. I will ask whether efforts to reduce the messiness of 
 intervention as illustrated by this work can help us to construct dialogue
 s that go beyond an attempt to clean a floor with a dirty rag. \n
LOCATION:Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\
 , Cambridge\, Room GS5
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