Transcript Joint EU/CoE Programme “Regional Support for Inclusive

Joint EU/CoE Project
“Regional Support for Inclusive Education”
What is the reality of inclusiveness
and diversity in education in South
Eastern Europe?
Panel 1: How inclusive are schools?
Nıce to meet you!
Emir Adzovic
Project Coordinator/Team Leader
Education for Democratic Citizenship and
Human Rights Education Project (EDC/HRE)
Council of Europe Ankara Programme Office
Turan Emeksiz Sok. Park Blokları B Blok No. 16
06700 Ankara
Tel: +90 312 468 84 64 – 1611
Fax: +90 312 468 84 06
e-mail: [email protected]
www.edchreturkey-eu-coe.int
What is Inclusive Education?
The child’s right to participate and the school’s
duty to accept the child no matter what their
background.
Welcomes and celebrates diversity arising from
gender, nationality, race, language, social
background, level of educational achievement,
disability, etc.
WHAT IS THE REALITY OF INCLUSIVENESS AND
DIVERSITY IN EDUCATION IN SOUTH EASTERN
EUROPE?
• -Creating inclusive school cultures
(building community, establishing inclusive
values);
• -Producing inclusive school
policies (developing the school for all,
organizing support for diversity);
• -Evolving inclusive school practice
(orchestrating learning, mobilizing
resources)
Key questions
• Do schools have a clear understanding of
inclusive education? Why?
• What role are school leaders playing in
fostering an inclusive culture?
• What are the practices in place with
regard to inclusive education? What
works? What are the challenges?
• Existing practices of professional
development of school staff
Key questions
• Existing practices of school self-evaluation,
monitoring
• How much education is focused on individual
needs and interests of each individual learner
• Do individuals with different abilities learn in
same environments as other peers
• How much priority is given to literacy
development in early school years and
teaching
• Does organizational culture of the schools
promote diversity
Methodology
• Three working groups
• Chose rapporteur!
• Study questions individually and note 2-3
examples of good practice from your
school/community.
• Note one challenge that threatens the
development of inclusive environment in your
school/community.
Coffee break
• Agree on most striking examples and discuss it
further.
Our action steps (afternoon)
• What can be done so that schools promote
diversity?
• How to reach the vision aspired to, starting
from situation where we are?
• Are there other steps that we need to think of
for reaching the results we want?
• What school practices can be changed? How?
• What are the processes that actors need to
engage in?
• How can school organisation and leadership
help in developing inclusive practices?