Research from Kaleidoscope will feature in No Other: Creating Schools Where Everyone Belongs, the forthcoming Routledge title edited by Ian Gilbert.
Our Founder and Director of Research & Innovation, Dr Nicole Ponsford, contributes one of the collection’s 46 extracts from 46 voices, bringing Kaleidoscope’s evidence and insights into a wider conversation about inclusion and belonging.
The contribution reflects a central purpose of Kaleidoscope’s work as a research centre: making large-scale data accessible, meaningful and useful to the people shaping education.
Connecting research with lived experience
At Kaleidoscope, we examine how inclusion is experienced by students, staff, parents and carers. Our research looks beyond overall averages to explore whose experiences differ, whose voices may be overlooked and where organisations can focus their attention.
Through our Inclusion Index, research publications and work with education communities, we connect evidence with the questions leaders and practitioners face. We aim to help organisations understand what their communities are telling them and use that understanding to inform action.
Contributing to No Other extends this work, sharing research beyond the platform and opening up discussion about what it takes to create schools where everyone belongs.
Building a shared understanding of inclusion
The collection brings together different voices around a shared concern: how schools can become places where everyone experiences belonging.
Kaleidoscope’s contribution brings our research perspective to that conversation, keeping the people behind the data in view.
Inclusion is the system. Belonging is the experience.
