MultInclude – supporting schools in improving their inclusion strategies

Abstract

Inclusion in education has been a hot topic all over Europe. There have been various attempts to develop inclusion strategies for different groups, such as for the inclusion of disabled students, newly arrived migrants, those with special needs and others. MultInclude, an Erasmus+ project ESHA is a partner of, has focused on the multiple inclusion needs of students having in mind the completion of secondary education and continuation of studies at tertiary level. In short, what we are aiming at is educating lifelong learners by catering for the individual inclusion needs of each student. The project has two research aspect that will be presented: first there were over 70 inclusion case studies collected from all over the world and analysed for finding the “best” in best practices, secondly, based in this a self-assessment tool was developed and piloted in over 50 schools in various European countries and the experiences of these pilots have also been analysed. Praise for MultInclude and the Scoring Matrix: “I love it when complex concepts are translated into hands-on processes. And so, I’m a big fan of the MultInclude project’s tool for self-assessing #inclusion within schools.” – Mari Varsányi, teacher, trainer and consultant specialising on Intercultural and Inclusive Education, the Netherlands.