Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
2014
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Denmark
Area: 43,098 km²
Population: 5,655,750
The Danish Folkeskole
Consists of one pre-school year, nine years of primary
and lower secondary education and an optional one-
year (10th grade)
98 municipalities
1.605 municipal schools
595.573 students
28.591 classes
The average number of students per class is 19.6
The teacher/student ratio is 1:10.7
50.972 teachers, of which 67 % are women
and 47 % are below 45 years
59.869 bilingual students
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The Danish situation … in more numbers
An eye opener in 2010
7. Simplification of rules
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Inclusion still on the top of the school agenda
Schools are now expected to provide education that
ensures good learning outcomes for all students while
fostering social and educational inclusion.
OR
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Selected ongoing and future research
The municipalities’ efforts of inclusion
Development of coping strategies (for students)
Program about students’ inclusion and development
(based on a panel of students’ voices (8000 students)
Students’ roles in the inclusive learning communities
Differentiated teaching strategies and implementation
The quality of instruction and teaching in special schools
Students’ support to one another – outside the lessons
Inclusion in school subjects as science, music etc.
Collaboration between special schools and regular
schools
Evaluation strategies of municipality-based projects
about inclusion
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Preparedness at the institutional level
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Which way to go?
Opportunities and pitfalls
Transferring more children to mainstream schools
Political decision
Cuts and savings
’It will work … all by itself’
Evidence-based methods
A reform of special education