Providing a cornerstone to the global debate on equity and inclusion within education this handbook explores equity issues pertaining to poverty and social class race ethnicity sociocultural sociolinguistic exclusion in education and recognises intersectionality and gender across these dimensions. This carefully curated collection of essays written by international experts promotes inclusive systems in education that explicitly recognise the voices of learners who may be at risk of marginalisation exclusion or underachievement. Developing a multilayered innovative conceptual framework involving spatial emotional-relational and dialogical 'turns' for education it emphasises key system points for reform including building strategic bridges between health and education for vulnerable groups and shifts in focus for initial teacher education and the wider curriculum. The handbook is organised into the following key parts: Theoretical Frameworks Funding Models and Structures for Equity and Inclusive Systems Exclusion and Discrimination Bridging Health and Education Agency and Empowerment Outreach and Engagement The Routledge International Handbook of Equity and Inclusion in Education will be of great value to academics operating in the areas of education psychology sociology social policy ethnography cultural studies; researchers in university research centres and in policy institutes pertaining to education poverty social inclusion as well as international organisations involved with inclusion in education.|The Routledge International Handbook of Equity and Inclusion in Education | Education
