Are there any examples of good practice in secondary schools?
Although there are many examples of good practice in the UK and Sweden, which were referred to in the discussions, the majority of seminar participants did not have any direct experience of inclusion in secondary schools. Inclusive education has been very successful, however, in pre-schools and in primary schools in many different countries despite the shortage of material resources. One of the problems with secondary schools, as with the very academic and competitive schools, is that they are exam orientated. IE programmes operating with minimal resources have opted to prioritise primary schools and primary teacher training colleges. In Papua New Guinea, for example, the policy on IE has not been applied to secondary education and the secondary teacher training college has made it clear that they have other priorities. How can we broaden IE beyond disability? “This seminar is full of contradictions.
