Gajendra K. Verma is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Manchester, UK.

Devorah Kalekin-Fishman is Senior Researcher at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Introduction and overview Gajendra K. Verma

PART I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES

1. Education and social integration for all: Challenges and responses Gajendra K. Verma

2. Furthering social inclusion through citizenship education: Cultivating civic action in early childhood education Devorah Kalekin-Fishman

3. Pedagogies and partnerships for educating the whole child Carl A. Grant and Elisabeth Zwier

4. Broadstreaming through creative learning: An approach towards educational inclusion Vijoy Prakash

PART II: PERSPECTIVES ON POLICY AND PRACTICE

5. Inclusive education and societal development: An Indian perspective Ran Bijay N. Sinha and Rupa Lakshmi

6. The field of education in New Zealand: Inclusion/exclusion in schooling Charles Crothers

[...]opean Union policies for lifelong learning: A 'portal' to social inclusion? Eugenia A. Panitsidou

8. Educational policies and teachers' professional development: Disability issues Panagiotis Giavrimis, Stella Giossi and Adamantios Papastamatis

9. Gender parity: Inclusion in Bangladesh education Samir Ranjan Nath

PART III: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBLE RESPONSES TO INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

10. Challenges for education and inclusiveness in India Mohd Akhtar Siddiqui

11. Bilingual immigrant students and inclusive learning: Issues and challenges Eleni Griva

12. Dyslexia: A learning disability in the Indian context Mona Tabassum and Manju Kumari

13. Inclusive learning: The challenge of special needs Royston Flude

14. Reaching the unreached: Traverse of alternative and innovative schools K. Gireesan

Afterword Devorah Kalekin-Fishman