PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS IN THE FIELD OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN SCHOOL (THE EXPERIENCE OF RUSSIA AND BULGARIA)
https://doi.org/10.17853/1994-5639-2016-6-168-186
Abstract
The aim of the investigation is to discuss the problems connected with a current state of inclusive education in Russia and Bulgaria.
Methods. Experience, positive and negative tendencies in the field of inclusive education of the Russian and Bulgarian systems of training and education are analysed and generalized.
Results and scientific novelty. Creating conditions for quality education for all children regardless of the characteristics of their health is a social guarantee of any post-industrial country. Access to quality education for children with disabilities is a target of nowadays reforms of the Russian and Bulgarian education in the context of globalization: Bulgaria’s accession to the European Union and activity of Russia as an independent state on the international education arena.
Adverse conditions of inclusive education in the two countries complicate establishing and implementation of public policies for the development of inclusive education. However, objective data about teachers’ readiness for the implementation of inclusive education and public debate around this issue stimulates a better understanding of the principles on which the activities of the teacher, directed at the education of children with disabilities.
The principles providing a basis for developing professional teacher competencies in the field of inclusive education are presented in the article. The importance of complex solution to the problem is highlighted: involvement of an administrative resource, realization of the social mechanism of a special type of mutual aid (tutoring), formation in the organization and society of culture of the attitude towards people with peculiarities of health. Everything listed has to be supported by the state measures, including the motivation of teachers to development in a profession and obtaining special professional competences.
Practical significance. The research findings can be useful for correction of pedagogical activity during the work with the pupils having features of development and needing special attention.
About the Authors
Iglika A. AngelovaRussian Federation
Educator-Researcher, Center for Creative Learning; Coordinator, «Career Center», Training Center of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (Bulgaria).
Tatiana N. Le-van
Russian Federation
Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Fellow Researcher, Institution of Medical-Biological Problems, People’s Friendship University of Russia (PFUR), Moscow (RF).
Anna I. Mantarova
Russian Federation
Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor in the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria).
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Review
For citations:
Angelova I.A., Le-van T.N., Mantarova A.I. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS IN THE FIELD OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN SCHOOL (THE EXPERIENCE OF RUSSIA AND BULGARIA). The Education and science journal. 2016;(6):168-186. https://doi.org/10.17853/1994-5639-2016-6-168-186