Proceedings of the 5th Global Conference on Education and Teaching
Year: 2023
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Inclusion of Students with Special Needs in Private Schools in Kuwait: Practice and Implementation
Ali M Alansari
ABSTRACT:
The inclusion approach is one of the most effective ways of integrating students with special needs into society. According to Kuwaiti regulations, both public and private schools must increase quality services to assist students with special needs in inclusive classrooms. Although the inclusion approach is mandatory in Kuwait, schools have encountered barriers to its implementation. Therefore, there were key goals to this research: to identify how inclusion practices are implemented by administrators, teachers, and counselors in private Kuwaiti primary schools, and to identify the differences in the implementation practices of inclusion between two private primary schools in Kuwait.
The findings revealed that the two schools Six key methods for implementing the inclusion approach were revealed. Four were common to both schools and two were different. The four in common were: (1) learning styles, (2) collaboration, (3) communication, and (4) preparation. The two seen solely in the first school were: (1) cooperative learning among students, and (2) discipline management, and in the second school they were (1) teaching LD students in small groups, and (2) anti-bullying sessions. Based on the findings of this research, future work should examine the practice of inclusion by school administrators attempting to implement the inclusion process, especially at the high school and university levels.
keywords: the inclusion approach, educational administration, Special education, Integration