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Mapping policies and practices for the preparation of teachers for inclusive education in contexts of social and cultural diversity. Vanja Ivosevic Centre for Education Policy Becici, 24 April 2010. Objectives:.
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Mapping policies and practices for the preparation of teachers for inclusive education in contexts of social and cultural diversity Vanja Ivosevic Centre for Education Policy Becici, 24 April 2010
Objectives: • to analyse policies and practices regarding teachers’ pre-service training and in-service professional development schemes at the country level, and • to identify issues, challenges and good practice in the 7 participating countries with regard to the skills and competences required for inclusive education practices by teachers from primary and secondary education.
Key concepts • Inclusive education: Inclusive education in this study is understood broadly as a process by which a school attempts to respond to all pupils as individuals by reconsidering and restructuring its curricular organisation and provision and allocating resources to enhance equality of opportunity. • Competences: as an integrated set of knowledge, skills, and dispositions.
Preliminary findings • Policies, strategies and legal acts aim at achieving an inclusive education system • However, often, inclusive education is viewed in narrow terms: inclusion of one or few targeted groups rather than as a broad concept
Pre-service teacher education • Preparation of teachers in VET sector is often lacking in formal pre-service education • Inclusive education – additional subjects to the existing programmes of teacher education • Lack of practice and contact with pupils, as well as vulnarable groups, parents • Who are the teachers?
In-service teacher education • Often teachers opt for subject oriented training • Inclusion oriented training aimed at specific groups • Differences in how the in-services training is adressed within the system of teachers career and progression • Filling in the gaps or enhancing competences?
Further steps • 7 country reports to be published on ETF website (English and language of the country) • Synthesis report in writing; expected by end of summer
Thank you! www.cep.edu.rs vivosevic@cep.edu.rs