scholarly journals Quality Education for All? The Promises and Limitations of the SDG Framework for Inclusive Education and Students with Disabilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-115
1970 ◽  
pp. 329-342
Author(s):  
Boubacar Sidi Diallo

This article examines the rights of persons with disabilities in the field of inclusive education based on fundamental human rights outlined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Inclusive education is essential to achieve universal respect for the right to education, including persons with disabilities. Only inclusive education systems can offer persons with disabilities both quality education and the opportunity to improve their social situation. Inclusive education is not just about placing students with disabilities in mainstream educational institutions; it also means making them feel welcome, respected and valued. The values that underlie the concept of inclusive education reinforce the capacity of everyone to achieve their goals and to conceive of diversity as a source of enrichment. Students with disabilities need appropriate support to participate in the education system on an equal basis with other students. Ordinary educational institutions must provide students with disabilities with a learning environment that maximizes academic progress and socialization.


Author(s):  
Т.К. Осекова ◽  
К.А. Мадалиева

Авторы раскрывают основные проблемы и этапы становления инклюзивного образования, в которых возможность приобретения знаний доступна всем и особенно детям с ограниченными возможностями здоровья (ОВЗ), в Кыргызстане. Понятие «инклюзивное образование» определено как обеспечение равного доступа к образованию для всех обучающихся с учетом разнообразия особых образовательных потребностей и индивидуальных возможностей. Дети с ОВЗ в обычной общеобразовательной школе могут не только получить качественное образование, но и успешно адаптироваться к жизни. Отражены принципы и факторы инклюзивного образования, которые включают в себя доступность школьного образования для всех детей. Для реализации инклюзивного образования нужно обратить внимание на создание соответствующих условий в обществе и образовательном процессе, подготовку педагогов, способных создавать и внедрять инклюзивную образовательную среду в образовательных организациях. The article reveals the main problems and stages of formation of inclusive education in which the opportunity to acquire knowledge is available to everyone, especially children with disabilities. The concept of «inclusive education» is defined as ensuring equal access to education for all students, taking into account the diversity of special educational needs and individual opportunities. Children with disabilities can not only get a high-quality education in a regular comprehensive school, but also successfully adapt to life. The principles and factors of inclusive education are reflected, with accessibility to school education for all children included. To implement inclusive education, attention should be paid to creating appropriate conditions both in society and educational process, as well as training teachers who are able to create and implement inclusive educational environment in educational organizations.


Author(s):  
Валентина CЕРГЕЄВА

 The article highlights topical and top-priority issues of inclusive education implementation in Ukraine. Pedagogical inclusion is regarded as an educational paradigm based on the principles of equality, accessibility, and the guarantee of high-quality education for all, which is a fundamental imperative of its effective functioning, and one of the most beneficial forms of education for the children with special needs. The study analyzes the definitions of the basic categories of the issue and the legal basis for ensuring the organization of the inclusive educational environment. The emphasis is laid on the organizational aspects of inclusive education implementation in the institutions of pre-school and general secondary education.


1970 ◽  
pp. 55-74
Author(s):  
Iwona Chrzanowska

The idea of inclusive education is the concept of education for all. According to opinions of different backgrounds, it seems that the idea of inclusive education in Poland is mainly associated with the “problem” of a presence of students with disabilities in the mainstream school. The studies on the phenomenon of inclusive education were focused on the problems of the organization of education, teachers’ competences, and their consequences for the student withdisability. Seldom, if ever, is the phenomenon recognized in the context of all students, participants in the process. The idea of inclusive education goes beyond a single entity, i.e. a student with a disability. This idea requires a search for a new model of school – “a learning school” (like in the model of a learning organization). The school should be a place where people for all time are expanding their capacity to achieve results, constantly discovering and creating thereality in which they live.


2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (4 (254) ◽  
pp. 120-134
Author(s):  
Karolina Gniazdowska

Parents, teachers and students often wonder whether inclusive education brings benefits and enriches students with and without disabilities, or if it adversely affects one of the groups. Inclusive education has many benefits such as improving the quality of education for all students, overcoming social exclusion and combating discrimination. Inclusive education enables development for all students. There are benefits for students with disabilities such as the possibility of personal, intellectual and, above all, social development. Importantly, a student with a disability has a chance to develop in a natural environment. Students without disabilities can also experience the benefits of inclusive education. They have a chance to get used to difference, learn tolerance and sensitivity to the needs of others. Inclusive education can therefore significantly affect the students’ value system and bring positive changes in the attitudes of students with and without disabilities.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 05-23
Author(s):  
Solange Lucas Ribeiro ◽  
Juliana Oliveira dos Santos

As políticas inclusivas apontam avanços no direito à escolarização de alunos, contemplando a sua diversidade. Dessa forma, pessoas com deficiência, transtorno do espectro autista, altas habilidades e outras singularidades, vem ocupando espaços nas escolas. Contudo, há muito a ser percorrido para que a inclusão se efetive, sendo um dos pilares, a mediação pedagógica, a partir da escuta sensível, que permite atender às necessidades e especificidades dos alunos. O presente artigo intenciona analisar e problematizar as práticas docentes e os recursos didáticos, utilizados no ensino de Geografia, com ênfase na categoria Lugar e na cartografia tátil. A temática é relevante, pois há uma imagem estereotipada da geografia escolar, considerada como uma disciplina mnemônica, difícil, que urge ser desconstruída, sobretudo para alunos com deficiência, que vivenciam a chamada “inclusão marginal”. O texto é produto de uma pesquisa colaborativa, com desenvolvimento de oficinas, a partir de dados coletados em entrevistas, grupos focais e questionários.  Nos achados da pesquisa, assume destaque a subtração do direito à educação, pela falta de equidade de oportunidades e de recursos táteis não usados pela grande maioria dos professores. Nesse sentido, uma educação de qualidade, para todos, é um desafio necessário e urgente que a sociedade deve assegurar. Palavras-chave Ensino de geografia, Diversidade, Inclusão, Cartografia tátil.   TEACHING GEOGRAPHY IN THE CONTEXT OF DIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION Abstract Inclusive policies point to advances in the right to schooling for students, taking into account their diversity. Thus, people with disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, high skills and other singularities, have been occupying spaces in schools. However, there is much to be done for inclusion to become effective, one of the pillars being pedagogical mediation, based on sensitive listening, which allows meeting the needs and specificities of students. This article intends to analyze and problematize teaching practices and didactic resources, used in the teaching of Geography, with emphasis on the category Place and tactile cartography. The theme is relevant, as there is a stereotyped image of school geography, considered as a mnemonic, difficult discipline, which urgently needs to be deconstructed, especially for students with disabilities, who experience the so-called “marginal inclusion”. The text is the product of collaborative research, with the development of workshops, based on data collected in interviews, focus groups and questionnaires. In the research findings, the subtraction of the right to education is highlighted, due to the lack of equity in opportunities and tactile resources not used by the vast majority of teachers. In this sense, quality education for all is a necessary and urgent challenge that society must ensure. Keywords Geography teaching, Diversity, Inclusion, Tactile cartography.


2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Leire Darretxe Urrutxi ◽  
María Alvarez Rementería ◽  
Israel Alonso Saez ◽  
Nekane Beloki Arizti

This theoretical article addresses the question of the commitment of international educational policy to an inclusive and equitable quality education for all people as a fundamental right. The implemented methodology was a review of publications from international organizations and scientific articles from different reference databases, such as Latindex, Erih and Dialnet, between the years 2010-2020. The selected articles and reports have been categorized by different topics that provided understanding to the field of inclusive education, which has allowed the analysis and the results that are presented hereunder. Firstly, the beginnings and development of Inclusive Education are described, collecting the main milestones related to education as a right and placing special emphasis on those milestones of greatest relevance. Subsequently, the different and complementary perspectives regarding inclusive education have been synthetized and analysed, arguing that there are different causes that foster the development of this right. Thus, an attempt is made to delimit the meaning of inclusion, educational inclusion and/or inclusive education, reaching consensus or agreements endorsed by the literature. Conclusions highlight that inclusive education has to be based on equity and the importance of educational policies being committed to this challenge of guaranteeing an inclusive and equitable education for all people.


Author(s):  
Gwadabe Kurawa

Inclusive education, in most countries affected by an emergency or crisis, is focused on providing access to quality education for all children. Provision of quality education for all children, as discussed in much literature about education, is very much dependent on teacher quality. Improving and sustaining the quality of teaching is equally determined by the type of training and professional development offered to teachers. Teachers, however, in emergency contexts such as in the Northeast of Nigeria, may be recruited to improve student learning, having received little or no relevant training. Therefore, professional learning for teachers that is intended to offer them opportunities for immediate and sustained improvement in practice is, this chapter argues, needed in such emergency contexts. This chapter therefore analyses teacher professional development that can improve the standard of education for all children and then assesses the effect of this development in practice in the Northeast of Nigeria.


Prospects ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 281-296
Author(s):  
Ines Alves ◽  
Paula Campos Pinto ◽  
Teresa Janela Pinto

AbstractThis article assesses evidence of and challenges to the development of inclusive education in Portugal, which is built on three pillars: access to, participation in, and achievement in education for all children and young people. It presents an overview of the present policy framework, followed by an analysis of available statistical data on Portuguese students with disabilities in mainstream schools. The article also discusses significant achievements at the policy and practice levels, namely the attempt to align curriculum and pedagogy and the presence of almost 100% of students with disabilities in mainstream schools. It also considers challenges, such as the issue of monitoring achievement (both at the student and system level) and investments in the system and in teacher education.


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