scholarly journals INCLUSIVE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL

Author(s):  
Liliia М. Potapiuk ◽  

The article examines organizational issues of the inclusive education implementation in Ukraine. The level of the society civilized development depends on its attitude to humans as the highest value based on respect, tolerance, a sympathetic treatment of everyone, and especially of people with special needs. The study argues that inclusion in Ukraine is being implemented in accordance with the international standards and universal values. Emphasis is placed on the «child-centered» education system, where a holistic approach dominates. It ensures the realization of equal rights and opportunities for everyone and provides equal access to quality education. The main terms for the strategy development from institutionalization to inclusion are: ensuring the right and possibility to choose an educational institution and curriculum according to child’s individual characteristics; implementing children’s achievement stimulation in various fields of activity; ensuring their socio-pedagogical protection, recognition of their rights and freedoms; inclusive competence of the scientific and pedagogical workers and applicants. Inclusive higher education ought to be developed on the principles of dialogue in the framework of partnership pedagogy, subject-subject relationships within a healthy educational environment, and the principles of coexistence, mutual sovereignty, free co-development, unity, and decision-making. The article provides scientifically-grounded information about the main components of teacher training necessary for working with students with special educational needs (motivational, cognitive, creative, activity-based), the principles of teachers’ activity aimed at ensuring the effectiveness of the correctional and developmental measures. The emphasis is laid on the analysis of the system of correctional, preventive, and developmental tasks, unity of diagnosis and corrective measures, corrective methods, the set of psychological influence methods, taking into account the age and individual characteristics of students, and active involvement of the immediate social environment. Among the most important issues highlighted in the article are the problems occurring during the organization of inclusive education and its support. The study findings substantiate the significance of the preventive measures system helping to increase the efficiency of the corrective work during the inclusive education implementation at higher education institutions. An inclusive model of educational space implies a comprehensive approach that includes a system of educational services, namely an adaptation of curricula and plans, physical environment, innovative teaching methods and forms, use of the existing social resources, the involvement of parents, and cooperation with specialists to provide qualified services to people with special educational needs, and creating a comfortable educational environment. The main idea of the inclusive approach to education is that it is not the individual, who should adapt to social or social-economic relations, but society should create suitable conditions to meet the special needs of each and every individual.

Author(s):  
Tetyana Shapovalova

The article describes the prerequisites for the creation and implementation of an inclusive educational environment in higher education settings in Ukraine. Contradictions have been identified between the legal framework governing higher education for students with special educational needs and the lack of appropriate physical and psychological conditions for the realization of the right to education, and the contradiction between the existence of a tendency to integrate the educational process and the need to individualize the educational process. It is determined that the state of development of inclusive education in Ukraine is characterized by insufficient development of both social and acmeological mechanisms of interaction of key figures of the educational process. The types of inclusive education implemented by higher education institutions are described. The experience of implementation of inclusive educational policy at Lviv Polytechnic National University and the University "Ukraine" is considered. The author's development of the model of acmeological interaction of participants of the inclusive process in the inclusive educational environment is presented, and the criteria and indicators of evaluation of the interaction of the participants of the inclusive process in the inclusive educational environment are explained. It was found that a serious obstacle to the introduction of inclusive higher education in Ukraine is the lack of financial capacity of universities: there is no equipped environment, there are no special programs aimed at such education. Conclusions are made regarding the importance of acmeological interaction of participants in the inclusive process in an inclusive educational environment, which is not only to improve the situation of students with special educational needs but also to create positive aspects of social development in general.


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-104
Author(s):  
Tеtiana Lunkina ◽  
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Julia Sizonenko ◽  

Annotation. Introduction. The unfavorable trend of disability in the world as a whole and in Ukraine in particular, necessitates solving the problems of access to education for children and youth with special needs, because a full life in society of people with disabilities is impossible without quality education and professional self-realization. Today, the education system for applicants with special educational needs is at a stage of inevitable change. Purpose. In the course of the research the essence and peculiarities of the development of inclusive education in Ukraine are considered. The advantages and disadvantages of including young people with special needs in the educational process are analyzed. The advantages of inclusion in the educational process both for young people with special needs and for typical applicants for higher education are substantiated. Results. A SWOT analysis of the socialization of young people with special educational needs was conducted. It is proposed to introduce measures to attract young people with special educational needs for their socialization, adaptation and integration into society. Conclusion. It has been proven that the problem of inclusive education is becoming more and more widespread every year, so higher education institutions need to respond immediately, developing mechanisms for attracting and further cooperation of young people with special needs. The practical value of the proposed ideas is: creating conditions for improving the competence of higher education students when working with people with disabilities; approbation of educational programs focused on training specialists with special needs; providing comprehensive and equitable quality education and encouraging lifelong learning opportunities for all. The socialization of young people with special educational needs will create conditions for effective work and interaction of higher education students with people with disabilities throughout the educational process. Keywords: inclusion; persons with disabilities; socialization; educational process; integration; institutions of higher education; tutor students.


Author(s):  
Irina Yesikova

The article highlights the concept of inclusive educational environment, describes its features and relevance of active use of distance learning in an inclusive educational environment of general secondary education. The main didactic conditions for the introduction of information and communication technologies in the inclusive educational process are the use of various educational approaches taking into account the individual characteristics of students, their temperament, ability to learn materials and the availability of logistics. Based on the study of advanced pedagogical experience and generalization of scientific and pedagogical works the basic actual ICT, for the organization of educational process in the inclusive environment are allocated. The use of ICT as a means of supporting inclusive education for compensatory, communication and didactic purposes is described. The main types of ICT that should be used as a means of supporting inclusive education are revealed. An overview of modern ICT tools that should be used in an inclusive environment for didactic purposes and describes their functionality as specially designed software for educational purposes. The focus is on distance education of children with special educational needs, interactive educational environment - "Virtual Classroom", a free project of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine "All-Ukrainian School Online" and All-Ukrainian Free School Educational Network "Diary.ua". It is established that the introduction of ICT in an inclusive educational environment as a didactic tool diversifies and expands the range of traditional tools and resources, provides children with special educational needs to have free access to quality education, social adaptation and confidence, especially in the pandemic era. and quarantine restrictions. It is indicated that a promising direction to continue research on the outlined problem is the creation and adaptation of software and methodological complexes of distance learning for people with disabilities.


2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-255
Author(s):  
Aušrinė Pasvenskienė ◽  
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Milda Žaliauskaitė ◽  

This article considers the implementation of the right to higher education for learners with special needs in Lithuania. Although this right is guaranteed by various international documents and national legal acts, the main responsibility to ensure equality in higher education for all learners is embedded in the discretion of higher education institutions. The aim of this article is to analyse Lithuanian legal regulation regarding inclusion of students with special needs into higher education institutions and to evaluate Lithuanian university policies, as institutional documents, concerning students with special educational needs. A brief overview and comparison of all Lithuanian HEI policies illustrates the institutional approach towards educating students with SEN and the level of attentiveness to realization of their right to education. The research also considers pivotal challenges of ensuring inclusive education for those students as well as presents recommendations to address these challenges.


Author(s):  
HANNA SLOZANSKA

The development of inclusive education in Ukraine is gaining momentum. Mechanisms for organizing a comfortable educational environment in educational institutions are being actively developed in recent years. The issue of developing effective strategies, methods, techniques for inclusive education in educational institutions is acuted. New approaches to education and upbringing of children with different types of educational difficulties, activation of their potential, development of their individual capabilities, satisfaction of their needs and interests; technologies of successful integration of children with special educational needs into the educational space of secondary school, etc. are developed. It has been proved by foreign researchers that the properly organized preparation of children with special educational needs for schooling in preschool institutions facilitates the process of adaptation and improves the process of learning. Therefore, the article actualizes and characterizes the peculiarities of preparing a child with special educational needs to study in general secondary education. Based on the analysis of a number of scientific papers published in the public domain Google Scholar, it has been identified a number of features that should be considered when preparing a child with special needs for school studying. Among them: 1) the development and implementation in the institution of preschool education: the individual educational program of preparation of a child with special needs for schooling, taking into account the individual characteristics of each child; individual development program taking into account the recommendations proposed by the Inclusive Resource Center in the conclusion on the comprehensive assessment of child development; individual curriculum for working with a child with special educational needs, which contains information about the list of services need to be provided to the child, adaptations and/or modifications necessary for the child; 2) development of pedagogical workers’ professional competencies necessary for working with children with special educational needs; 3) ensuring the effectiveness of the process of psychological support of a child with special educational needs in preparation for school.


2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-75
Author(s):  
O. A. Belyaeva ◽  

The ideas of the article are based on the high social significance of discussing the practices of inclusive interaction in various spheres of life and ensuring the variability of approaches to the integration of children with special educational needs into the general education system. On the basis of the environmental approach in education, presented in the works of domestic and foreign authors, the basic principles are outlined and the general difficulties of the functioning of inclusive practice at the present stage are identified. The strategy of applying the vector approach to the examination and modeling of the environment of inclusive interaction and designing ways to improve it for the organization of psychological and pedagogical support of the educational process in school is justified. On the basis of the generalized results of the survey of teachers who organize the education of children with disabilities in non-specialized classes, the features and the type of relations that are currently developing in the joint education of schoolchildren with different educational needs during their integration into a single educational space are characterized. Using the methodology of psychological and pedagogical expertise of the school environment, the typification of the most characteristic influences exerted at modern schools on a child with a developmental disorder is carried out. The emerging dominant modality of the educational environment, its orientation to the development of relationships between teachers and peers, based on the priority of stimulating the activity of the individual with different degrees of manifestation of its freedom or dependence, is revealed. The article describes potential capabilities of each of the diagnosed types of environment in terms of its resources for ensuring freedom of choice of activities, stimulating activity, developing students' independence, and forming their personal characteristics. The diagnosed priority of creative and career-oriented orientation allowed us to draw conclusions about the currently established approaches to the inclusion of children with deviant development in the environment of normotypic peers.


Author(s):  
Jayanthi Narayan ◽  
Nibedita Patnaik

Education is a fundamental right of all children, including those with special educational needs. Efforts to achieve education for all has resulted in the focused attention of governments around the world, thereby improving the quality of education in schools and leading to dignified social status for students previously marginalized and/or denied admission to schools. This worldwide movement following various international conventions and mandates has resulted in local efforts to reach rural remote areas, with education provided by the government in most countries. Though there has been significant progress in reaching children, it has not been uniform. There are still many barriers for children in rural and tribal areas or in remote parts of the country that prevent them from receiving equitable education. The essence of inclusive education is to build the capacity to reach out to all children, thereby promoting equity. In the 1990s, special needs education was a focus, and integrating it into the overall educational system led to reforms in mainstream schools which resulted in inclusive education that addressed the diverse learning needs of children. How successful have we been in these efforts particularly in the remote and rural areas? There are various models and practices for special and inclusive education in rural and remote areas, but reaching children with special educational needs in such areas is still a challenge. Though there are schools in these areas, not all are sufficiently equipped to address the education of children with special needs. Furthermore, teachers working in rural areas in many countries are not adequately trained to teach those with special needs, nor are there the technological support systems that we find available in urban areas. Yet, interestingly, in some rural/tribal communities, the teachers are naturally at ease with children with diverse needs. The schools in such areas tend to have heterogeneous classes with one teacher providing instruction to combined groups at different grade levels. Evidence shows that rural teachers are less resistant to including children with special needs compared to urban teachers. Because of their homogeneous lifestyle, community supports in rural areas offer another supportive factor toward smooth inclusion. Though primary education is ensured in most rural and remote areas, children have to travel long distances to semi-urban/urban areas for secondary and higher education; such travel is further complicated when the child has a disability. In many rural areas, children with special needs tend to learn the traditional job skills naturally associated with that area, though such skills are not always blended into the school curriculum. Preparing teachers to provide education in rural areas with the latest technological developments and a focus on vocation is bound to make that education more meaningful and naturally inclusive.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladyslava Liubarets ◽  
Tetiana Miroshnichenko ◽  
Galyna Cherusheva ◽  
Nataliia Pyzh ◽  
Oksana Protas

This article outlines and establishes the relationship of the main participants in the educational environment of inclusive education: triad “teacher-psychologist-teacher’s assistant”. The place, role and significance of the teacher's assistant in the team activity of psychological and pedagogical support, in the development and implementation of the individual program of development, differentiation and individualization of the educational process in an inclusive class, effective cooperation with parents, his participation in facilitating the socialization and adaptation of a child with special educational needs in the educational environment are determined. The stages of the educational process control of students with special educational needs and its structure are defined: assessment, diagnostics and monitoring. The principles of control and evaluation of the educational process for students with special educational needs are revealed. The participation in controlling of all members of the educational inclusive environment team is established. The importance of diagnosing the development of students with special educational needs and involving in the elaboration of an individual development program is also revealed.


Author(s):  
O. DENYSIUK ◽  
D. SULIMENKO ◽  
T. DRON

The process of reforming national education involves solving a number of overdue problems, among which an urgent issue of equal access to quality education still remains. Providing high-quality educational services to learners regardless of their social status, locality of residence, financial capacity, and other concomitant factors are a social and humanitarian task of the state.The introduction of the inclusive education system is an integral part of the functioning of the reference schools. The success of this process depends on the implementation of a number of systemic tasks, among which the following are the priorities: convenient location of the educational institution for the transportation of children from different settlements; provision of qualified pedagogical staff with appropriate training for working with children with special needs as well as staff units of correctional educators; presence of the modern level of material and technical support in accordance with the needs of children with special needs (meeting the requirements for the architectural accessibility of the premises of the educational institution); ensuring equal access to quality education for all persons, including those with special educational needs; creation of a single  information space  for the organization of distance learning for children with special needs; collection of reliable statistics to provide up-to-date information on reference schools and the organization of inclusive education for further analysis and adoption of sound management decisions based on it; bringing to a wide range of users of educational services, parents, communities of OTG, public organizations of positive experience of work of basic educational institutions; Disclosure of information about inclusive classes, forms and methods of training in them; monitoring of the functioning of the reference schools.


2021 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 01019
Author(s):  
Oksana Titova ◽  
Margarita Bratkova ◽  
Olga Karanevskaya ◽  
Elena Gravitskaya ◽  
Irma Barbakadze

There is currently a trend towards an increase in the number of children with special educational needs enrolled in inclusive schools. Thus, the number of children with special educational needs enrolled in inclusive schools is growing. This is caused both by significant changes in the legal regulatory framework, including the 2012 Federal Law on Education, the adoption of the Federal State Educational Standard of Primary General Education for Children with Special Needs, etc. and by the fact that in some regions the number of specialized schools is decreasing, inclusive education becomes a more affordable option for children with special education needs. School specialists, parents, and the public engage in an active dialogue about choosing the most efficient path for an educational route for special needs children, comparing the advantages and disadvantages of inclusive and special education. The design and implementation of an individual educational route, an individual curriculum is essential for children with special needs in terms of improving the quality of education and efficiently entering social life. The relevance of the study is determined by identifying the components that facilitate and complicate, hinder the development and implementation of an individual educational route for these children in an educational organization; the determination of the content of an individual educational route based on the current situation in a practical institution considering the requirements of inclusive education. The purpose of the study is to explore the problems of developing and implementing individual educational routes for children with special needs in the context of inclusion and to determine ways to solve these problems. The key methods of the study are a questionnaire and a structured interview. The empirical data confirms the assumption that the development and implementation of an individual educational route for children with special needs in an educational organization are problematic and inefficient for several reasons. The data obtained is new since similar research results have not been found in the open sources over the past five years.


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