School Without Walls

AFTERWORD

My original research idea of developing an ‘inclusion index’ to measure inclusivity in schools has not been given up. Rather, it has become stronger after ‘discovering’ the potential of inclusion to respond to equity and opportunity, quality and excellence and above all to the demands of the information age in the twenty-first century. The idea of an inclusion index came to me after hearing a paper delivered in a conference in which a professor had developed a ‘segregation index’ for schools in one of the provinces in Canada. In India, schools are more segregating in practice, so there would be little differentiation among schools on a segregation scale! Further, the word ‘segregation’ seemed to be a negative term. Hence, the idea ...