Inclusive Education: Focusing on the Learning and Participation of All Students: Focusing on the Learning and Participation of All Students

Author: Huang Zhicheng
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: "Inclusive Education: Focusing on All Students' Learning and Participation" is an international educational trend that emerged in the 1990s, advocating that education should focus on the needs of all students, on collectivism, and on cooperation. Inclusive education emphasizes human rights, democracy, equality, participation, and cooperation. It advocates the abolition of segregated special schools and calls for mainstream schools to accept all students. Inclusive education opposes discrimination and exclusion in schools, emphasizing universal participation and cooperation. It encourages mainstream schools to pay more attention to the learning difficulties of those who are marginalized. Inclusive education not only requires accepting all students but, more importantly, promotes the active participation of every student in learning and life, meeting their diverse needs. Inclusive education recognizes that every individual has unique personalities, interests, abilities, and needs. It implements education based on the characteristics and needs of children. Inclusive education believes that curricula should adapt to students' needs rather than requiring students to adapt to curricula. It advocates diversified teaching methods based on students' different characteristics. Inclusive education challenges educational systems, practices, and concepts. The first part of this book focuses on elaborating the development history and basic concepts of inclusive education, while the second part discusses the background, process, characteristics, and issues of inclusive education in the UK, the USA, Australia, Spain, and China.