Prospects for Inclusive Education in European Countries Emerging from Economic and Other Trauma: Serbia and Albania

Autor/inn/en	Radoman, Vesna; Nano, Virxhil; Closs, Alison
Titel	Prospects for Inclusive Education in European Countries Emerging from Economic and Other Trauma: Serbia and Albania
Quelle	In: European Journal of Special Needs Education, 21 (2006) 2, S.151-166 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-6257
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Inclusive Schools; Special Education; Educational Policy; War; Economic Factors; Educational History; Social Change; Albania; Serbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Inclusive school; Integrative Schule; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Krieg; Ökonomischer Faktor; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Sozialer Wandel; Albanien; Serbien
Abstract	This paper examines recent historical, social and economic factors in Albania and Serbia, identifying similarities and differences that have a bearing on the provision of education. The focus is on the education of children with difficulties in learning and/or disabilities (the term "special needs" is used for brevity). The paper provides a summary of the past and present situation of children with special needs in both countries. The role and motivation of international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in funding and developing inclusive educational policies and practices in both countries are examined. There are substantial barriers to inclusive education in Albania and Serbia. These are identified and discussed before examining more recent positive developments in both countries. Two individual examples of schools that are making progress are profiled, one from each country. Finally, the prospects for the future in both countries are examined, and the prediction made that in-country efforts and developments will result in further slow and uneven progress towards inclusive education in Albania and Serbia. For any of this to happen, however, it will be important that conditions of economic recovery, social stability, the political drive towards Europe and its inclusive standards, and further help from international NGOs, prevail. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10