No Other

Creating schools where everyone belongs
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-32721-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Independent Thinking

How can schools become places where everyone belongs, thrives and is celebrated?

At a time when diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are under attack globally, this timely and engaging book offers a powerful call to action, drawing on a diverse range of contributors to show how belonging plays a crucial role in attendance, behaviour, engagement and achievement. Edited by award-winning education writer Ian Gilbert, it comprises 45 unique contributions from across the education spectrum, offering practical insights and alternative perspectives on creating inclusive, equitable schools. Topics covered include supporting refugee children, neurodiversity, the Muslim experience, gypsy, Romany and traveller children, supporting teachers of colour and older teachers in their careers, holding difficult conversations, decolonising the curriculum, LGBTQ+ awareness, limb difference and much more.

The book serves as both a showcase of what can be done to ensure belonging for all members of the school community and a timely response to the consequences of punitive behaviour control approaches. Taking its place alongside two previous best-selling titles also edited by Ian Gilbert, The Working Class and Square Pegs, this volume completes a trilogy fighting to help schools ensure everyone is welcomed, understood and successful.

This practical and powerful book will benefit all educators, school leaders, policymakers and those in academia and social care who want to understand better how schools can serve as havens where there genuinely is No Other.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilbert, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Kindergarten & Vorschule
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Ellie Costello, Executive Director, Square Peg

Preface

1. Belonging, if - Inclusion, exclusion and the Homo Sacer
Tier Blundell

2. Children Seeking Sanctuary
Megan Greenwood

3. ‘Shakespeare Must Have Been a Black Girl’ – Diversity and Curriculum Design
Jonathan Lear

4. ‘A Bit Less Alien’ – Belonging and the Bereaved Child
Lucy Lynch

5. Belonging More by Attending Less: The Benefits of Flexischooling
Sarah Sudea

6. Literacy Without Limits - Reframing reading, Writing and Oracy Through Inclusion
Sarah Moseley

Poem One: Our Name Is Not a Burden - Afifa Khanam

7. The Attendance Problem Isn’t An Attendance Problem
Mark Goodwin

8. ‘I Know You All Like Me’ – On Intentional Inclusivity
Rob Metcalfe

9. Don’t Say the P-Word! – LGBTQ+ Awareness in the Conservative School Setting
Andy Low

10. Belonging, Curiosity and the Radical Forces of Inclusion
James Searjeant

11. The Invisible Ones – Supporting autistic girls in education
Cathy Wassell

Poem Two - A Seat at the Table - Afifa Khanam

12. You Belong Here: Cultivating Value, Voice and Cultural Belonging in All Schools
Gemma Hathaway

13. Invisible Barriers – Supporting Ethnic Minority Teachers
Rhia Mutombo

14. ‘I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means’ – Inclusion Beyond Rhetoric in International Schools
Nigel Winnard

15. Belonging begins at home - How Parental Engagement Creates Inclusive Schools
Karen Dempster and Justin Robbins

16. Achieving Belonging by Dismantling Hierarchies in the Curriculum
Bennie Kara

17. What's Right With You? - Happiness, belonging and the Finnish perspective
Kaisa Vuorninen

Poem Three - We Walked Into School with Quiet Shoes
Afifa Khanam

18. Prejudice, Labelling, and Low Expectations – Challenging teacher assumptions
Elizabeth Farrar

19. The Lonely Child
Mihaela Beatrice Sirbu

20. The Hidden Exclusions of Quiet Compliance
Julia Hancock

21. Thirteen Reflections on Belonging, Authenticity and Allyship
Alison Kriel

22. Inclusion by Intention - An inclusion champion in every classroom
Nicole Ponsford

23. Breaking the Silence – Speaking out on inclusion and identity
Ian Timbrell

24. Belonging, Identity and the Educational Binds of Poverty
Ceri Brown

25. I, (Older) Teacher
Elaine Fenech

26.Teacher Bias, Ethnicity, and Perceptions of Mental Health in Schools
Maddi Popoola

Poem Four - The Question Beneath Our Skin - Afifa Khanam

27. A Fish In Water – Belonging in the Early Years
Ruth Swailes

28. Finding Common Ground - Families and schools working together so that children thrive
James Harris

29. Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Children - Rich in the Wrong Currency
Sarah Fell

30. Holding Courageous Conversations
Hannah Wilson

31. Belonging and Neurodiversity in the Inclusive Classroom
Katie Goodwin

Poem Five - Refugees and the Hostile Environment
Afifa Khanam

32. Love is Not an Intervention
Zoya Wallington

33. Muslim Belonging in Education - Anti-Muslim hate, curriculum reform and ethical Safeguarding Practice
Javeria Khadija Shah

34. You Don’t Know Me Yet – Cultivating belonging for new Sixth Formers
Laura Newell

35. Limb Difference in the Classroom
Jane Hewitt

36. Learning Through Dialogue – Unselfing, Belonging, and the Power of Conversation
Susan Kyne Andrews

37. I Care; You Care; We Care – Building Cultures of Inclusion, Diversity and Wellbeing in Schools
Nina Jackson

38. ‘Say it Again, Only Whiter’ – Rethinking EAL
Rory File

39. Learning About versus Learning to Be – How Character Education can Support Inclusion
Melodie Harmer

Poem Six - Across Two Classrooms - Afifa Khanam

40. Peer Coaching – The Glue that Connects the Whole School Community
Jackie Beere, OBE

41. Behaviour, Attendance and Belonging – The six principles of the Healing Way
Stephen Logan

42. ‘Here I am’ – Belonging and Authentic Oracy
Rachel Higginson

43. Wired to be Loved
Debra Kidd

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Gilbert is an award-winning education writer and editor as well as an international speaker, innovator and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of the education platform Independent Thinking, an organisation he founded in 1993. He is the author of Essential Motivation in the Classroom 3rd ed (Routledge, 2025) and Why Do I Need a Teacher When I’ve Got Google? (Routledge 2014) and has written or edited multiple books for the Independent Thinking Press. He is currently based in Finland.