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INCLUES-News European Network for Inclusive and Cognitive Education supported by the European Commission's Comenius 3 action programme Want to join the INCLUES network and become an associated partner? There is nothing so easy, but important. Look here ...how
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N°5 January
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It is still time to wish you a Happy New Year, that this year more children will really feel welcome in regular schools, whatever their level of difficulty, and not be excluded from regular schools because of a disability; that more children will feel supported in their learning processes, without having to go to a special school, and will meet teachers who care for children, have a passion for teaching and feel competent to shape their minds and deal with difference. I hope this year inclusive education will no longer be described as a far away utopia but will become closer to realization, also in countries where it is still in an embryonic state. I hope that policy makes will finally listen to parents' and professionals' claims to make inclusive education a basic civil right, and change financial and other regulations accordingly. The INCLUES Network, a place to share information, has many examples of good practice of inclusive education, which may act as a lighthouse for those seeking their way in misty environments.
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This year's International summer school on cognitive education and assessment as a tool for inclusive education will take place in Paris from 9-20th July 2006. Hurry up to ask for a Comenius & Grundvigt grant to your National Socrates Agency!
Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment and LPAD Programme, based on Structual Cognitive Modifiability and Mediated Learning Experience theory have proven to be effective tools in the hands of teachers caring for inclusion to shape children's minds, to teach how to learn and to differentiate teaching to different pupils coming from various cultural backgrounds and aptitude levels. Children need teachers who know how to mediate. As last year, INCLUES co-organizes the 27th International Workshops on these subjects and methods together with the International Centre for the Enhancement of Learning Potential |
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| That the road to inclusive education is long and difficult - however beautiful - became again apparent during the INCLUES Network Conference in Prague which took place from October 30th till November 2nd 2005. Lots of controversies, discussions, even disparate opinions and fascinating experiences, interesting scientific papers. If you couldn't be there, you missed an awful lot. Catch a glimpse from the atmosphere and look forward to the publication of the proceedings |
Peetjie Engels and Dagmara Dzurova of the Czech Down Syndrome Ass. greeting Silver Medal winner Prof. Feuerstein |
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| Write in your agenda: final Inclues conference Rome 22-24 September 2006. This will focus on examples of good practice in inclusive and cognitive education. Call for papers is now open. |
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No real inclusive education without a thorough reform of current psychological and academic assessment practices. Dynamic assessment offers a real alternative.
A new 166 page book is now available , published as a Special Issue of the Transsylvanian Journal of Psychology by the Department of Psychology of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj(Romania). |
Example of Human Figure Drawing Test in a dynamic way with mediation, by Jennifer ( 6 year old girl with Down syndrome)
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Learning about the Index in use. A study of the use of the Index for inclusion in schools and Local Education Authorities in England' (2005)
This report, written by Sharon Rustemier and Tony Booth, examines the many different ways the Centre for the Study of Inclusive Education's Index for Inclusion has been used by primary and secondary schools and by Local Education Authorities in England. Following the five phases of the Index process, the report considers what can be learned from the experiences, through detailed examples and case studies; the report illustrates the positive impact the Index can have on the inclusive development of school cultures, policies and practices |
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Inclusive education of integrated education: a linguistic or conceptual difference.
At the Inclues partners' meeting in Prague ( October 2005), a lively discussion was held to clarify understanding about inclusive education. It appears that inclusion is quite differently understood and practiced throughout Europe. There are many watered down versions and many misunderstandings |
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