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Inclusive education

Meaning in education & teaching, with examples

nounCore term

In education & teaching, inclusive education means: An approach in which all children, including those with disabilities or other barriers to learning, learn together in ordinary schools and classes with the support they need.

In Turkish: kapsayıcı eğitim, kaynaştırma ve bütünleştirme eğitimi

How it is used

Common in policy documents, international reports and teacher training. Schools promote, support or practice inclusive education. The adjective inclusive also describes classrooms, schools and teaching ('an inclusive classroom').

Example sentences

  1. Inclusive education means adapting the school to the child, not the other way round.

  2. The training focused on practical strategies for inclusive education in large classes.

Common collocations

  • promote inclusive education
  • inclusive classroom
  • inclusive practice
  • inclusive school
  • mainstreamingPlacing students with special educational needs in regular classes with their peers for some or all of the school day.
  • special educational needsLearning difficulties or disabilities that make it harder for a child to learn than most children of the same age, so that the child needs extra or different support at school.
  • differentiationAdapting tasks, support, materials or outcomes so that students with different levels, needs and interests can all make progress in the same lesson.
  • accommodationA change in how a student learns or is tested, such as extra time, a quiet room or larger print, that removes a barrier without changing what the student is expected to learn.

More terms: Special and Inclusive Education

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