FOREWORD
On a visit to Britain in the 1930s, Mahatma Gandhi was asked what he thought of British civilisation. ‘It would be a good idea’, he replied. He would undoubtedly have said the same about inclusive education. The idea that all schools can create an inclusive environment in which no category of persons, no social class, caste or group is denied the chance to learn would have seemed to him a basic remedy for social justice and a step towards a fair, just and economically self-sustaining society.
But the concept of inclusive education, as Madan Jha points out in this lucid and perceptive book, is a confused and contested one. In richer developed countries, education is already inclusive of girls, the disadvantaged and all ethnic groups, ...
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