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Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement

Fifth Edition

Kathleen Tait, Mervyn Hyde, Shelley Dole

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ISBN:
9780190354756
Published:
22 Apr 2026
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Positively engage with your students in meaningful, relevant and successful ways.

Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement presents a clear, socially oriented approach to understanding and developing inclusive education. It will prepare you for diverse classrooms and help you develop strategies to engage students with varying backgrounds, needs and abilities. It takes a fresh look at what inclusion means and explores the disadvantages or limitations that prevent children fully participating in education.

Retaining a strong focus on student engagement and school belonging, it addresses areas that are proving challenging for teachers in engaging all students in inclusive learning environments: a greater number of children from immigrant families, the increasing impact of poverty in Australia, increasing levels of school dropout and the influence of technology and Artificial Intelligence systems in education.

This book will provide you with the knowledge and understanding to manage classroom challenges and develop inclusive learning environments as well as meeting the requirements of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

New to this Edition:

  • Updated research and three new chapters to align with recent legislation, policy and curriculum changes since the last edition.
  • Coverage of a range of topics with a stronger focus on students with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and with English as a second language.
  • Reconceptualisation of behavioural issues and whether they are a concern in themselves or are associated with a primary disability, such as autism spectrum disorder.
  • Updated Stories from the Classroom, Effective Practice, Apply your Knowledge, and Pause and Reflect questions offer current examples of how to implement inclusive education theory in practice.

PART 1: Setting the Scene
1. Understanding Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement
2. Australian Schools, Policy and Legislation in Perspective

PART 2: Embracing Diversity
3. Supporting Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
4. Indigenous Perspectives and Cultural Identity
5. Gender, Inclusivity and Engagement

PART 3: Supporting Diverse Learning Needs in the Classroom
6. Supporting Students with Literacy Difficulties
7. Assisting Children with Learning Difficulties in Mathematics
8. Effective Behaviour Support Practices in the Inclusive Classroom
9. Supporting Students with Complex Communication Needs
10. Supporting Students with Intellectual Disabilities
11. Inside the Classroom: Educating Students with Vision Impairment
12. Understanding Hearing Loss
13. Supporting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
14. Supporting Diverse Gifted Students
15. Understanding Physical Disability in Young Children
16. Supporting Mental Health and Well-being

PART 4: Creating Diverse and Inclusive Schools
17. Participation in What, and with Which Outcomes: Pedagogic Rights and the Purposes of Education
18. Creating Inclusive Schools

Associate Professor Kathleen Tait is an educational psychologist and specialist educator.

Emeritus Professor Mervyn Hyde AM is an international expert and consultant on Inclusive Education.

Professor Shelley Dole is a teacher educator and mathematics education researcher.

The following resource is available for lecturers who prescribe Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement, fourth edition, for their course:

  • Instructor's Resource Manual

Contact your Learning Consultant for more information.