I would appreciate opinions about self evaluation of school and inclusion of all children in general education in relation to the ecological model of special educational needs. Do you think that is important area in the research agenda?
The nowdays reserachs are focused on smart learnning, serious games and E-learnning.
May be this area will be benefic to your researchs.
I agree but inclusion is something more than having a child with autism or intellectual disabilities, play serious games and smart learning is abstract. Of course use of ICTin inclusive classroom is important to facilitate children learn
Zoi, I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but inclusion for me means to create a system where EACH and EVERY child gets what they need educationally, no matter whether they are classified or not. By this I mean that many children that I teach have some sort of limitation, including cognitive, physical, emotional or social and yet only a few are categorised as disabled in some way. In this sense, very few schools will be able to say they are inclusive, because it is built into the very structure of schools to be exclusive of those students in particular with a social or emotional deficit.
Exactly Mark Gould. In other words we can say that difficulties in the individual cause failure and exclusion.Inclusion is highly correlated with achievement. According to the social model the barrier to inclusion should be a curriculum without differentiation or adaptation to the individual potential. Do you think that if a school has a self evaluation culture could find also other barriers and work out solutions ?
Zoi, there are 2 answers to your last question.
YES schools could be designed to reduce exclusion. I have worked on this proposition for the last 14 years and have had some successes. By rethinking reporting, assessment, curriculum and pedagogy in an evolutionary way social exclusion can be reduced. By evolutionary, I mean NOT major changes, just tinkering with the way the normal day to day operation of schools happens.
NO, it won't happen soon. The problem is political. Nearly every political jurisdiction is moving in the opposite direction. Telling students they should change to suit the school instead if the other way around. This comes mostly from a misunderstanding of the role of failure in psychology. Politicians think that schools have tried to protect students too much from failure and that is destroying students' sense of reality about life at work. In reality schools have been trying to protect students from too much failure, which is reponsible for destroying students sense of reality about their ability to learn.
You couldn't make more clear. In my country the government passed a low for self evaluation of schools witch will run this year. I am eager to see what measures will be taken after proceeding the results
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