Session Information
04 SES 03 C, Policies - Pracitices - Procedures - Problems. An International Comparative Approach towards the Implementation of Inclusive Schooling
Round Table
Contribution
Since inclusive education has been established as a universal human right considering the UN-Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2006 it should be necessary to identify different policies in implementing those international rights within the educational system in European countries.
In an international approach researchers from four countries are invited to explain on the basis of national data the status of inclusive education and their policies of implementation: This includes school laws, changes within the processes of professionalization (special educational programs for teachers) and generating related research approaches. In addition it should be considered to which extend social movements have influenced these processes. Four European countries are taken for this pre-study since they all have signed and all except Finland have also ratified the UN-Convention but still have quite different approaches to special education which is reflected in the data concerning the number of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) and which proportion of them are being taught in inclusive classroom settings:
Austria: 3.3% SEN pupils > 55% are in full inclusive classroom settings
Finland: 8 % SEN pupils > 51% in full inclusive classroom settings
Germany: 5.7 % SEN pupils > 15 % in full inclusive classroom settings
Spain: 2.6 % SEN pupils > 76 % in full inclusive classroom settings (data collected from European Agency 2008).
Prof. Dr. Hannu Savolainen: Finnish special education reform: a promise of increasing inclusion?
Prof. Dr. Gottfried Biewer: Austrian Remarks on the Development of Inclusive Education within a Federal System
Prof. Dr. Víctor Santiuste Barmejo: Inclusive Education in Spain:Characteristics and Policies
Prof. Dr. Vera Moser:German Policies in inclusive education since the ratification of the UN-Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Method
Expected Outcomes
References
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