Quality of inclusion and cooperative learning. An Action Research in an Apulian high school

Journal title EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY
Author/s Valeria Rossini, Francesco Pizzolorusso
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2020/2
Language Italian Pages 30 P. 192-221 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ess2-2020oa9419
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The paper describes an action research carried out in an Apulian high school. The research aspires to promote a reflection about the quality of school inclusion aimed to make an improvement in teacher’s professionalism, educational and teaching activities. The study describes the planning, realization and evaluation of inclusive plans, from observation of the functioning of students with special educational needs, according to the ICF model, to experimentation of cooperative methodologies in the classroom. The results explain the importance of a careful planning skills in the dimensions of relationships and learning, able to integrate in a systemic view the school’s quality. The research also confirms that the active participation of teachers and students, in the promotion of better coexistence in school, is a fundamental strategy to make the class (and the school) an open and welcoming context, within which inclusion is understood not only as the involvement of all, but also as the enhancement of each.

Keywords: Action research, special educational needs, inclusion, cooperative learning.

Valeria Rossini, Francesco Pizzolorusso, Qualità dell’inclusione e didattica cooperativa. Una R-A in una scuola secondaria di secondo grado pugliese in "EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY" 2/2020, pp 192-221, DOI: 10.3280/ess2-2020oa9419