The members of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) are national and regional Educational Research Associations from all over Europe. The objective of the EERA is to encourage the connection between educational researchers and educational research associations and institutes within Europe, thus increasing research.
This year, “The European Conference on Educational Research”-ECER- (Annual Conference) will take place in Vienna, Austria. The title of the conference will be “Theory and Evidence in European Educational Research.”
The dates of the Pre- Conference are 25- 26 September 2009 (Friday- Saturday) and the Main conference will be held between the 28- 30 September 2009 (Monday- Wednesday). The Includ- ed project (FP6, 2006- 2011) will stand out once again at this conference.
The contribution by Marta Soler, Ramon Flecha, Mikko Ojala and Miranda Christou will specifically be based on the Includ-ed Integrated Project (FP6, 2006- 2011) which is dedicated to the analysis of schooling. The project uses the critical communicative methodology. The dissemination of scientific knowledge through dialogue leads to the enrichment of research. It describes inclusive practices in successful schools. One of its main objectives is to describe the relationship between educational exclusion/inclusion and social exclusion/inclusion.
In this project, inclusion is defined as a phenomenon in schools which carry out types of heterogeneous grouping and other inclusive practices that lead to successful academic achievement and coexistence. Inclusion is not “mixture”: There are schools that place students with different abilities in the same groups, but they still do not achieve academic success. They are schools in which students are placed in heterogeneous classrooms (without streaming) but are still marginalised from learning.
Therefore, in the process of identifying which inclusive educational practices are shared by inclusive successful schools, it was found that inclusive forms of organisation of all the available human resources in the classroom and other learning spaces with heterogeneous grouping, are required. It was also found that the participation of families and of the whole community in the learning process is essential.
