Primary & Secondary

A Methodology Report has been prepared to put the European Agency Statistics on Inclusive Education (EASIE) work into a clear context. It presents the relevant information about what has been done, how and why within the EASIE activities. It describes the methodology applied to the data collection exercise conducted in 2018 (covering the 2016/2017 school year). This is the second version of the EASIE Methodology Report. The first version describes the 2014 and 2016 data collection exercises (covering the 2012/2013 and 2014/2015 school years, respectively).

Attention to the topic of school leadership has grown in recent years as research has shown the key role played by school leaders and their influence on learner outcomes. In the context of increasing school autonomy in many countries, this role’s profile and complexity have increased, as has recognition of the need for support. This document summarises recent international and European-level policy documents that are relevant to school leadership.
This literature review aims to examine the available international and European literature (post-2012 and key literature published earlier) in order to: identify key concepts underpinning policy and practice for inclusive school leadership; agree operational definitions of key terms and concepts to be used during the project. The literature review, as well as a parallel policy review, also underpins the development of a conceptual framework for examining and exploring inclusive school leadership, and a review and ‘mapping’ of country policy that impacts on school leadership.

This paper outlines a short programme of work designed to follow up on the Agency’s Raising the Achievement of All Learners in Inclusive Education (Raising Achievement – RA) project, which ran from 2014 to 2017. It describes the purpose of the follow-up study, outlines the methodology used and describes the main changes to policy and practice that can be attributed to the project in full or in part, directly or indirectly. Finally, it highlights key learning points from this work for different stakeholder groups in the RA project.