Designed to accompany the Open University course Developing Intensive Curricula:Equality and Diversity in Education, Vol 1 will appeal to research students undertaking research in the area of education, focusing on special needs.

Preface Introduction Part I Experiences of learning 1 'Unless I chose to tell you, you wouldn't know' 2 Experiences of black students 3 My experiences of schooling 4 'Bloody uncomfortable!' Reflections on class and education 5 Another world: experiences of residential special schooling. Then 6 Another world: experiences of residential special schooling. Now 7 '… some kind of bampot.' Young people in care and their experience of the education system Part II Developing inclusive curricula 8 History for pupils who experience severe difficulties in learning 9 Group work in physics: towards an inclusive curriculum 10 Drama for all in a primary school 11 Personal, social and sex education in the mainstream: conversations with disabled and able-bodied teenagers 12 Personal development and young people with communication difficulties: a lesson in sex and love 13 An inclusive curriculum within a nursery school 14 Bilingual education in Wales 15 Language through the curriculum: equality of access 16 YT? Youth training in the visual arts: The Sam Morris Project 17 An inclusive curriculum for teacher education Part III Managing education in the 1990s 18 Competition between schools: inclusion or exclusion? 19 Inspecting schools 20 Managing a non-maintained special school for deaf students 21 Educating pupils who experience emotional and behavioural difficulties: a Northern Ireland perspective 22 Governing secondary schools 23 Securing an appropriate education for Kirsty 24 Barnwell School: a mainstream experience.