Making Inclusion Work

Experiences from Academia Around the World

Edited by Saija Katila, Adjunct Professor of Organization and Management, Senior Lecturer, Department of Management Studies, Aalto University School of Business, Finland, Susan Meriläinen, Professor of Management, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, Finland and Janne Tienari, Hanken School of Economics, Finland

This innovative book explores how inclusion can be enhanced in academia by considering the strategic work of expert academics from around the world. It offers a new look at academic work through the accounts of passionate practitioners who have each, in their own ways, made inclusion work.

‘. . . the book has a practical relevance that will be particularly useful to teachers seeking to design inclusive curriculum and pedagogy. The examples given are detailed and will be helpful to practitioners. They will also provide the opportunity for both teachers and researchers to reflect on their own inclusion-based efforts and to compare these with those of others in academic communities elsewhere.’
– Kate Barnett, Journal of Educational Administration and History

‘Making Inclusion Work is undoubtedly a valuable compendium of proven practices of inclusive education with its rich array of contributors from diverse cultures and perspectives. This illuminating and innovative “must-read” and much needed text is a perceptive reference, especially for teachers, hoping to make a difference by adapting the suggested inclusive pedagogical strategies which may result in an all-encompassing society of mankind.’
– Prathiba Nagabhushan, International Review of Education

‘Full of insights for any organizational scholar still hoping to make a difference for a better world, this greatly illuminating book examines what it takes to intervene critically but positively in the mainstream of a globalized academic life, and be able to survive such interventions. The contributors offer “tried and tested” approaches – neither aggressive nor confrontational – allowing them to bring inclusion and multiplicity to their teaching and their research while carving spaces for action and resistance to hegemonic academic practices. An innovative “must read” and much needed text!’
– Marta B. Calás, University of Massachusetts, US

‘This important book should be required reading for all management educators. Starting from an incisive and timely critique of the increasingly standardized global academic system, the editors set out to offer an inclusive vision of what education can be. A rich array of contributors from diverse cultures and perspectives offer experiences and ideas about the practice of inclusive education and, perhaps more importantly, offer some hope that the logic of standardization is not immutable.’
– Christopher Grey, University of Warwick, UK