The Heart of Inclusive Education is Collaboration
The Heart of Inclusive Education is Collaboration

Summary/Abstract: Just over twenty years ago, the World Conference on Special Needs Education in Salamanca, Spain (Unesco, 1994) called for students with disabilities to be educated within an inclusive education system. Inclusive education is based on the principle that local schools should provide for all children, however there are different interpretations of what this means in practice. Early efforts to include students with disabilities in mainstream classes focused on preparing them to fit into an unchanged education system. When this proved limited, subsequent efforts sought to change the mainstream by shifting focus from the problem of the child to the problem of the school, and researchers began to focus on the influence of school factors in learning and in student outcomes. With funding from the European Commission Erasmus+ Program, the research presented in this volume continues this tradition by investigating the socio-psychological and educational factors that facilitate and enhance quality inclusive education in four European countries, Lithuania, Poland, Austria and Finland.

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