Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Editors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction and overview -- PART I: Theoretical and conceptual issues -- 1. Education and social integration for all: Challenges and responses -- Introduction -- Inclusion: Some challenges -- Changing mind-sets -- Conclusions -- Note -- Bibliography -- 2. Furthering social inclusion through citizenship education: Cultivating civic action in early childhood education -- Context -- Introduction -- Background -- What is citizenship? -- Education for citizenship -- Outcomes of citizenship education -- Inclusive citizenship education -- Pedagogy in schools - what is to be done? -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3. Pedagogies and partnerships for educating the whole child -- Introduction -- The bifurcation -- The approaches -- Multicultural democratic education -- Intersectionality -- The everyday practices -- School-home-community partnerships -- Challenges -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 4. Broadstreaming through creative learning: An approach towards educational inclusion -- Context -- Introduction -- Mainstreaming versus broadstreaming -- Creative learning -- Applications of the model of creative learning in managing learning difficulties -- Identifying learning difficulties -- Bibliography -- PART II: Perspectives on policy and practice -- 5. Inclusive education and societal development: An Indian perspective -- Context -- Role of education -- Concept of inclusive education -- Challenges -- Societal responses -- Reflections -- Bibliography -- 6. The field of education in New Zealand: Inclusion/exclusion in schooling -- Introduction -- Policies of inclusiveness -- Research findings on New Zealand education -- The New Zealand system of education: schools, students and their characteristics