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Inclusive education has been a big topic in the field of education for many years. Although more than thirty years have passed since the Velvet Revolution, its condition is still not ideal. The legacy of performance segregated education from the time of socialism is still felt today, even though we have had several new generations of pedagogues since 1989.
The topic of inclusive education is very close to me, in the nineties I worked at the New School Foundation, where I participated in the implementation of the project of teaching assistants, who are now an integral part of the education system. And the segment of the non-profit sector dedicated to education is once again at the forefront of progress in the field of inclusion.
For this reason, I was interested in the Sar upre project of the organization Slovo 21, which focuses on the education of elementary school teachers. And that is exactly what is needed. Although the teachers have adequate pedagogical education, their expertise in the field of inclusive education is completely insufficient.
The basic problem is the uniform optics with which they look at the class collective during the educational process. They do not see children as individuals, personalities that come from different cultural and living conditions. Thanks to this bad perspective, they are unable to adapt teaching methods that would include the mentioned differences of children.
The Sar upre project is unique in its complexity. Not only in the course of the training, in an interactive form, the pedagogues will supplement the necessary skills (targeting the educational needs of individual pupils, the composition of the teaching mosaic, motivating individual pupils to learn, life mentoring, etc.), but at the same time, as part of the implementation of the project, they create unique supporting teaching materials that are for the pedagogues available in subsequent learning.
I rate the short animated puppet film directed by Jakub Červenka, which was also created as part of the Sar upre! project, as very good. According to the reactions of the teachers, it was very interesting and I believe that it will be seen not only by teachers, but also by the wider professional public. It is one of the ways to approach the issue of inclusive education in a playful and creative way.
I believe that the implementation of similar projects can move the issue of inclusive education a significant step further.
Vojta Lavička