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TOOLS TO MONITOR AND EVALUATE INCLUSION: AN HISTORICAL REVIEW
University of Palermo (ITALY)
About this paper:
Appears in: INTED2021 Proceedings
Publication year: 2021
Pages: 3627-3638
ISBN: 978-84-09-27666-0
ISSN: 2340-1079
doi: 10.21125/inted.2021.0753
Conference name: 15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Dates: 8-9 March, 2021
Location: Online Conference
Abstract:
The management of complexity in the social and educational field recalls the need for the entire teaching staff to make a constant critical reflection to interpret the changes that exist within micro and macro socio-cultural contexts, in order to take the positivity of creative and innovative stresses, but also the dangerous phenomenon of the expansion of new forms of discomfort and social, cultural and relational disintegration.

Inclusive education is a complex activity to be carried out, monitored and promoted, because it is characterized by exegetical multidimensionality and plurality of interpretation and difficulties of evaluation. At national and international level, various exploratory and survey models have been promoted aimed at analyzing the implementation of the concept of inclusion and its application in school contexts.

In this contribution we will present the main tools used in Italy to evaluate the quality of school inclusion in order to underline the importance they assume for the realization of the inclusive school. It will be highlighted how to detect and to certify the real development, within an educational community, of an inclusive process, it is necessary to identify common and shared tools that allow the detection, monitoring, and also, production, cooperation and reworking.

The analysis carried out compares the different tools, tracing an historical examination and an application analysis, in order to provide indications that could be useful to teachers for didactic design and evaluation.
Keywords:
inclusion, monitoring, evaluation, tools