Nursery World - Common cause

A range of strategies is available to ensure that the education we provide values everyone and is truly inclusive, says Joyce Miller 'Inclusive education is a system of education that recognises the right of all children to share a common educational environment in which all are valued equally regardless of difference in perceived ability, gender, class, ethnicity or learning styles' (Armstrong, 1999).

'Inclusive education is a system of education that recognises the right of all children to share a common educational environment in which all are valued equally regardless of difference in perceived ability, gender, class, ethnicity or learning styles' (Armstrong, 1999).

This quotation extends the debate on inclusion from the historic focus on children with special educational needs (SEN) to a context of effective learning and teaching for all children. However, within 'all children' we can identify individual children, groups of children, families and communities who are more likely to be or feel marginalised and, therefore, at risk of exclusion. These may include:

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