Disentangling the concept of equality in schools can be a tricky task for those in senior, middle or classroom leadership. This book will unpack ideas of equality, equity, diversity and social justice, providing practitioners and those training to teach with an understanding of equality in order to address educational values and practice.

· Socio-economic class

· Gender

· Sexuality

· Ethnicity

· Religion

· Migrant children

· Special learning needs and disabilities

This book will serve as a handy guide for postgraduate and undergraduate students on Education Leadership and Inclusive Education courses.

Setting the framework
Ideas of equality. The contested concept
The European policy landscape
Some differences matter more than others: the inequality landscape
Approaches to attacking inequality
Addressing in/equality
Looking at single characteristics. Looking at intersected multiple characteristics
Socio-economic class and inequality
Gender and inequality
Sexuality and inequality
Ethnicity and inequality
Religion and inequality
Migrant children and inequality
Special learning needs, disability and inequality
Drawing together threads for action
Bringing it all together: values, culture and goals

Jacky Lumby (Ph.D. University of Leicester) is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. She has taught and led in a range of educational settings, including secondary/high schools, community and further/technical education. She has also worked for a Training and Enterprise Council, with a regional responsibility for developing leaders across the public and private sectors. She has researched and published widely on educational policy, leadership and management in schools and colleges, in the UK and internationally. Her work on leadership encompasses a range of perspectives, including diversity issues, comparative and international perspectives and leading upper secondary education. She has co-edited International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders (2008). Her most recent book is, with Marianne Coleman, Leadership and Diversity: Challenging Theory and Practice in Education (2007). She is co- editor of the journal International Studies in Educational Administration and a member of the Council of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society.