INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Abstract

The article analyzes the international experience of legal regulation of inclusive education and its implementation in European countries, including Belgium, Spain, Italy and Germany. The main tendencies in the development of the education systems of European countries are the deepening of its spiritual and cultural components and bolstering of humanistic orientation in the educational process. The present paper highlights the main stages in the development of inclusive education, increased attention to children with special educational needs, and activation of their integration into society, characteristic of some European countries in the 70-the 80s of the XX century. Spurred by the body of specialized academic knowledge about special educational needs, the quality of inclusive education is gradually rising. Joint education and upbringing have become an integral part of European education, though the means of its implementation differ around its countries. In particular, special education institutions have been almost eliminated in Spain, Italy, Greece, and Portugal. Despite the differences in the current types and levels of educational institutions, secondary education in Western Europe is one of the key elements of the modern European model of social organization. For the post-Soviet countries, this system provides a window into ways of attending to pedagogical and social problems that arise alongside the implementation of inclusive education.