Session Information
04 SES 06 A, Inclusion and Diversity
Paper Session
Contribution
For several decades there has been and still is an ongoing international debate about inclusion in schools. Several research contributions are made on the area of inclusion. One view in the debate is that schools should adapt the diverse needs of children (Cigman 2007, xix). This is in accordance with the understanding that the system of education has barriers to participation in the attempt to attain a school for all, a unitary compulsory school (e.g. Ainscow 1999).
A range of concepts concerning inclusion and diversity are used by governments, they all define whom the system in education should include. Concepts without clear definitions of diversity and inclusion have different meaning in school and might not always promote political intentions. The concept of diversity is used frequently without being discussed and without any attempts to make a more precise definition (Morken 2009). The concept inclusion, like diversity, is variously interpreted.
This paper focuses on inclusion and diversity from two specific angles: how inclusion and diversity is conceptualised in politics and schools. And second, how schools become successful in their work of inclusion and maintaining a diverse student population. Is there a relationship between political intentions and the interpretation of them in at school level?
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References
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