Inclusive school environment and mechanisms for the emergence of segregation barriers in school

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Nina Cebotaru
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
The World ◽  
Inclusive School ◽  
Educational Structures ◽  
Educational Inclusion

Both internationally and nationally there is an ongoing debate on the benefits of including children with special educational needs in the educational structures alongside their peers. School integration of children with special educational needs creates discussions, disputes, but it is a tendency throughout the world. Inclusive education encompasses this discussion and, in addition, the orientation towards quality and efficiency of the entire educational system, formal and non-formal. Some parents, specialists and even people with disabilities argue that a person who is prevented from participating with his or her peers in general schools is denied the fundamental right to education. Others, on the contrary, assert that by integrating into the general schools many children with special needs are not assured of meeting their needs. Therefore, these different opinions and circumstances have influenced the purpose of the present paper; that consists in the deeper study of awareness and practices in the field of educational inclusion of children with special educational needs (SEN) at school and community level.

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE TYPES OF SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE SITUATION OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-75
Author(s):  
O. A. Belyaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
The Individual

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.

scholarly journals Implementacija i provedba inkluzivnog odgoja i obrazovanja u sustavu redovnih škola

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matilda Karamatić Brčić
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Inclusive School ◽  
Educational Need ◽  
The Right ◽  
Educational Inclusion

Implementation and educational inclusion in school is a relevant topic for pedagogical and social context because it implies the acceptance and appreciation of differences among children as incentives, rather than obstacles in the process of teaching and learning. On the UNESCO World Conference concerning Special Educational Needs held in 1994, Statement and Framework for Action were adopted, which promote the right of every child to be involved in the educational system, and in regular schools, regardless of their physical, intellectual, emotional, social, linguistic or other conditions. The term special educational need in this context does not exclusively refer to children with disabilities. The concept of inclusive education with the meaning of inclusion of all children in compulsory education extends and deepens the educational model of integration of children with disabilities in regular education. The introduction and implementation of inclusion in schools becomes the requirement of contemporary educational policies of Europe and the world, whereby the changing of schools in order to achieve educational inclusion is conditional on changing the entire educational practice (Mittler, 2006). This paper will show some of the assumptions that are crucial for the implementation of inclusion in schools with special emphasis on the role of activities of teachers as key participants in the process of inclusive school.

scholarly journals Inclusive Education is a Multi-Faceted Concept

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-30
Author(s):  
David Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Curriculum Assessment ◽  
Support Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Regular Classes

With the impetus of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with  disabilities, inclusive education is an idea whose time has arrived around the world. Its scope goes far beyond learners with disabilities and has now been extended to cover all learners with special educational needs, whatever their origins. It also extends beyond the mere placement of such learners in regular classes to include consideration of multiple facets of education. The present paper examines a model of inclusive education that, in addition to placement, embraces vision, curriculum, assessment, teaching, acceptance, access, support, resources and leadership. For each of these facets, criteria are specified and indicators are suggested.

Educational Inclusion By Conviction

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 286-297
Author(s):  
José Manuel Salum Tomé
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
International Debate ◽  
Access And Quality ◽  
The Right ◽  
Educational Inclusion

Inclusive education has begun to be addressed within the context of the broader international debate on “Education for All” (EFA), a debate launched at the World Conference held in 1990 in Jomtien, Thailand. From Jomtien until today , thinking has evolved from the almost symbolic presence of special educational needs in the initial documentation, towards the recognition that inclusion must be a fundamental principle of the EFA movement as a whole. Within this process, the contribution of the Salamanca Declaration on Special Educational Needs: Access and quality (Unesco, 1994) stands out, from which the concept of educational inclusion emerges strongly. Thereafter thescope and perspectives of inclusive education has been based on the idea that all children and young people have the right to a quality education with equivalent learning opportunities, regardless of their social and cultural background and their differences in skills and abilities (OIE -UNESCO, 20 08) .

scholarly journals FORMATION OF THE COMMUNICATIVE SPEECH SKILLS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN IN THE CONDITIONS OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 171-182
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Holub ◽  
Nadiia Holub
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Speech Development ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Primary School Age

The state of the problem under study in the psychological and methodological literature is analyzed in the article. The content of the definitions: “communicative skills”, “communicative-speech skills” and “communicative-speech development” has been clarified. The developmental features of communication and speech skills for primary school children in inclusive educational conditions are considered. The methodological techniques for the formation and development of communicative-speech skills in inclusive classes of elementary school are determined.Effective types of corrective assistance for children with special educational needs in the lessons of the subject “I explore the world”are the actualization of the motive of communicative action, the creation of emotional play situations, the organization of attention and increased speech control, and a decrease of the volume and the rate of work. For children of primary school age with special educational needs, long-term types of assistance are advisable for the formation of arbitrary forms of communication activity.In order to develop communicative speech skills, it is recommended to use in classrooms such methodological techniques as working with a terms dictionary, explaining the meaning of concepts, introducing new terms into one’s own statements, analyzing natural objects, composing stories on a given topic using the studied concepts.Organizational forms and methodological techniques for the formation of communicative speech skills are analyzed – a system of differentiated tasks, conversations based on illustrative material, role-playing games, group work, research projects, excursions, multimedia methods etc. The pedagogical conditions for the formation of communicative speech skills for primary school age children in inclusive classes at the lessons of the subject “I explore the world” are determined and characterized.In order to develop the communicative speech skills of schoolchildren studied in an inclusive learning environment, it is necessary to provide the early inclusion of primary schoolchildren with special educational needs in the process of systematic correctional and developmental work. Keywords: communicative speech skills, speech development, communicative speech development, inclusive education, inclusive class, special educational needs, pedagogical conditions, primary school age children, educational process.

scholarly journals The competences of young teachers in education of pupils with special educational needs

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 139-160
Author(s):  
J. Slowik ◽  
M. Peskova ◽  
O. V. Shatunova ◽  
E. V. Bartus
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
Expert Support ◽  
Young Teachers

Introduction. The present article considers the problem of readiness of young teachers to teach children with special educational needs in countries where the introduction of inclusive education began only in the last decade. The authors describe the key concepts of the theory of formation of professional skills and competences of teachers for working in inclusive education, based on which the results of research conducted in theCzechRepublic,Poland andRussia.The aim of this article is to compare the experience of young teachers in teaching children with special educational needs in relation to their skills and competences needed to perform this task.Methodology and research methods. Questionnaires and interviews were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data, which were eventually processed using basic statistics (quantitative survey) and the open-coding method (qualitative content).Results. The results of the study indicate both strong and weak aspects of the skills of young teachers in teaching students with special educational needs. In particular, a qualitative analysis of teachers’ responses revealed some interesting ideas that can be used in the search for improvements in teacher training, as well as in the support provided to teachers working with children with special educational needs directly in the school environment at the beginning of their professional careers. In general, it can be stated that young teachers in all three countries do not feel sufficiently qualified in terms of training to work with these children and are in need of expert support.Scientific novelty. The results of the current research allow for the determination of some priorities in teacher training for the modern development of inclusive education in the countries examined.Practical significance. The presented materials of the research can become the basis for developing a system of expert support for young teachers in the implementation of inclusive education, as well as new programs for preparing future teachers to work with pupils with special educational needs.

scholarly journals The Teachers' Opinion about Online Learning Process for Children with Special Educational Needs

Educatia 21 ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 152-157
Author(s):  
Pavelina Pîrciu ◽  
◽  
Lavinia-Maria Nițulescu ◽  
Gianina-Cătălina Clavac-Prodan ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Functional Variants ◽  
Short Span

Communication in the online environment represents a real evolution for the whole society, hence for the educational system but because the whole change took place in a short span of time, the education has faced an unencountered challenge up to now. Component of the informational society, the educational dynamic and open system promotes nowadays ways of achieving the instructional educational process, offering to the teacher a multitude of organisational and functional variants. However, in the case of children with special educational needs, there are many barriers in the way of achieving their right to education in the virtual space. The present study consisted of achieving an inquiry-based questionnaire, applied to the teaching staff who works in inclusive education centres and to those who have students with different deficiencies and special educational needs in their class. The results of the study highlight both the difficulties and the opportunities of achieving a didactic activity in the online environment for students with special educational needs.

scholarly journals THE RIGHT TO INCLUSIVE EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-226
Author(s):  
GORDANA STANKOVSKA ◽  
IMRAN MEMEDI
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Right

A child is a member of a vulnerable group in societies. Children's rights are equal for all children and they cannot be denied, because they are a birthright. However, throughout the world, children with disabilities and their families constantly experience a barrier in regard to the enjoyment of their basic human rights and to their inclusion in society. Their abilities are overlooked, their capacities are underestimated and their needs are given low priority. The barriers they face are more frequently a result of the environment in which they live rather than a result of their impairment. The situation began to change only when requirements to include disabled children in the education system were introduced in legislation. Following the example of other countries worldwide, the Republic of North Macedonia introduced inclusion of children with disabilities in the mainstream educational process, because the right to education is a right for all children, including the ones with special educational needs. For this purpose, the Republic of North Macedonia implemented a series of changes in the educational system for successful inclusion of children with special educational needs. Hence, the main aim of our paper is to represent the actual situation in Macedonian schools regarding the problem of educational inclusion of students with disabilities in the regular school system. The research methods are based on document studies and case studies about changes in social and educational policies for students with disabilities and special educational needs who are included in primary and secondary education. At the same time we shall present some guidelines for teachers who work with these children and future directions for a proper inclusion system in the Republic of North Macedonia, because every child has a fundamental right to education and must be given the opportunity to achieve and reach an acceptable level of learning. In this frame, school societies try to support full participation of students with disabilities in areas of their lives on equal terms, conditions, social justice and basic human rights.

scholarly journals The Right to Education for Learners with Special Educational Needs in Lithuanian Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-255
Author(s):  
Aušrinė Pasvenskienė ◽  
◽  
Milda Žaliauskaitė ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
The Right

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.

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