ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the concepts of power, inclusion and diversity and their potential to impact upon the lives. Power as resistance, or sabotage, is starkly demonstrated within a study by Ahn centred on the social power of young children. An initiative that began in the UK in 2006 is the Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA), which seeks to embed the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) across schools' curriculum and management. It works to uphold equality, dignity, respect, non-discrimination and participation with children and young people. Such a rights-based approach has the potential to be fully inclusive in terms of a broad definition of inclusion. Within nature, diversity is prized as the very aspect which gives strength and continuance to living things; those organisms which fail to adapt and change become obsolete.
