The Development of the Idea of the Inclusion of Children with Special Educational Needs in View of Pre-School Education and Primary School

  • Elżbieta Jaszczyszyn University of Białystok
  • Iwona Lewkowicz

Abstract

Modern views on education have evolved to regard it to be the right of every human being (regardless of gender, nationality, colour of skin, state of health or individual capabilities) to education. In order to provide the best conditions of education for students with various educational needs it is necessary to create a proper climate for working with them at school and in the family environment. What is needed here, is: a) a coalition of all entities responsible for providing psychological-educational assistance for a child and, b) a high level of education offered, c) development of schools and kindergartens, which will properly satisfy the needs of children with special educational needs. In this process it is necessary to create the legal basis for such actions, a climate of social acceptance, preparation of teachers and other staff working in educational institutions and organizing conditions and situations for direct contacts and interactions of children of diverse needs and development capabilities. Mutual relations can be maintained in a climate of acceptance, understanding, joy and sense of one’s personal development. Inclusive education is our hope for providing able-bodied students and students with special educational needs the sense of belonging to the same community, which is a school/kindergarten as well as to a globally organized human civilization.


Keywords: inclusion, inclusive education, special educational needs, kindergarten, school.

Author Biographies

Elżbieta Jaszczyszyn, University of Białystok

Elżbieta Jaszczyszyn – has a PhD in the field of pedagogy and works at the University of Białystok in the Department of Preschool and Early Primary School Pedagogy of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology. Her research interests include the widely understood quality of preschool education, particularly the idea of the special concern and support for activity of a practical as well as a mental character in children (speaking, listening, reading and writing, but also the ability of co-existing with people, fantasizing, taking decisions or humanitarianism). The author and co-author of many publications about, inter alia, preschool education and a process of university education. She is a member of a programme team of the Polish Committee of the World Organization of Preschool Education (Organisation Mondiale pour L’Education Prescolaire), the Association of Professors of Slavonic Countries (APSC) and Polish Pedagogical Association (Polskie Towarzystwo Pedagogiczne).

University of Bialystok
Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology
ul. Świerkowa 20
15–328 Białystok

Iwona Lewkowicz

Iwona Lewkowicz – MA, a graduate of the Higher School of Social Psychology in Warsaw (Wyższa Szkoła Psychologii Społecznej w Warszawie) and of the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the University in Białystok (Wydział Pedagogiki i Psychologii Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku). For several years she has been running socio-therapeutic classes with early-school age children as an educator and therapist of Sensory Education. She collaborates with Publishers Raabe/Forum and is a co-author of publications, among others: Child’s Rights in International Law (Prawa Dziecka w prawie międzynarodowym), International Cooperation of Polish Regions on Health Protection (Współpraca międzynarodowa polskich regionów w zakresie ochrony zdrowia). She is an author of books addressed to teachers and parents: A Theatre of Imagination, or Visualisations on Classes for Preschoolers (Teatr wyobraźni, czyli wizualizacje na zajęciach dla przedszkolaków), Support of Shy Children (Wspieranie dzieci nieśmiałych), How Will You Get on in School (Jak ty sobie poradzisz w szkole), You are Naughty Again (Znowu jesteś niegrzeczny), and numerous lesson plans for educational therapy.

ul. Mickiewicza 39/42
15–213 Białystok

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Published
2015-12-30
How to Cite
Jaszczyszyn, E., & Lewkowicz, I. (2015). The Development of the Idea of the Inclusion of Children with Special Educational Needs in View of Pre-School Education and Primary School. Multidisciplinary Journal of School Education, 4(2 (8). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.ignatianum.edu.pl/jpe/article/view/806
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Vol. 4 No. 2 (8) (2015): Inclusiveness in Preschool and Elementary School Education as a Space for Diversity
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Thematic Articles

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