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What is the goal of inclusive education?

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Quality education is one of the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. In this project, quality education is aimed at the most marginalized students who want to develop their potential but for certain reasons, do not have the means to do so. In this article, we want to tell you what inclusive education consists of, what its objectives are and how to apply it in the classroom. According to UNESCO data, “ more than 262 million children and young people are not in school. Six out of ten children have not yet acquired basic literacy and numeracy skills after several years of schooling. 750 million adults are illiterate, something that contributes to poverty and marginalization .”  (Text from https://en.unesco.org/themes/education2030-sdg4 )  What is inclusive education? Inclusive education tries to promote equal opportunities, provide a personalized education, promoting participation, solidarity and cooperation among students, improving the quality of teaching and the effectivene...

The 5 qualities that every early childhood educator should have

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The figure of the early childhood educator is, in many cases, the first person that the boy or girl will contact outside of their family safety zone. Hence, one of the most important skills of these professionals is trust and affection, i. e., promote rapprochement through a friendly treatment, especially during the period of adaptation of the boy or girl to their new didactic environment. For the correct educational intervention and the accurate social attention to children and the family, educators must have the following five essential qualities: 1.- Empathy One of the qualities that can benefit the educator the most in the performance of his/her work is to be a close and understanding person, capable of understanding the little ones. The empathic attitude must be established with students, parents and the rest of the team with which she/he must work in coordination.  Establishing a close and tolerant relationship with children will help them adopt these values ​​and learn the i...

Differences between Integration and Inclusion

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To understand the differences between integration and inclusion, from village high school it must be clarified that in the developed societies and in their educational communities, a vision consistent with social integration has been spreading in recent years, which, together with the laws introduced, make up a new educational model of attention to diversity. From traditional concepts to inclusion  In short, in the history of educational attention to diversity, there has been a shift from a welfare model to an educational model based on the principle of equality and in which the living and schooling conditions of people with some type of deficit or disability should not be different from the world of others. The educational model changes fundamentally from the moment in which the boy and the girl and their disability cease to be the center, being the educational system itself the one that has to adapt to the personal characteristics of each student and give him the most appropriat...