Inclusive education: research and practice

Book excerpt: In the first chapter we present the different models or perspectives on disability. How we look at people with disabilities often determines how we (re)act towards them, how we interact (or not), how we live together (or not). It is in rather recent years that legislation is perceived to achieve inclusion for people with disabilities – this is the subject of the second chapter. From the Salamanca statement on the United Nations Declaration on Right for People with a Disability to legislation of the EU and what they all mean to the human rights for people with disabilities. Chapter three gives an insight on how inclusion can happen. We look at inclusion as a transition process of ‘educational change’ and how to create it. The model for complex change can also be used to manage change in youth, leisure or sports organisations. In the fourth chapter we present some more concrete tools that are useful in that transition. Chapter five gives an overview of the legislation on inclusive education and the state of play in partner-countries of the PINC-project. In the last chapter we ask ourselves the question “Does inclusion really work?”. The answer is yes. Research in all PINC-Partner countries affirms that inclusion is beneficial for all children! .