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This 7 page paper looks at the concepts of integration and inclusiveness in education, identifying differences between the two approaches and considering the way in which inclusive education can take place. The paper includes consideration of the Salamanca statement. The bibliography cites 9 sources.
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in the way a nation develops, education is a foundation stone to develop, economic and social, and is increasing seen as a universal right, which is reflected in the Salamanca
statement. When looking at the way education is there has been a shift from the ideas of integration to ideas of inclusion. This has been an international shift. When looking
at the difference between these two terms a good starting place is the dictionary definition, the term integration may be defined as "an act or instance of combining into an
integral whole" where as inclusion may be defined as an act of including (Dictionary.com, 2010). The terms may be used in similar ways, but from this there is a
different meaning and a potentially different emphasis on the way the policies may focus in integration or inclusion. In the integration there is the creation of a single whole,
this can mean increasing the whole, but it may also include the way in which those that are not within the majority are brought into that majority. An example of
one extreme educational policy of integration was seen in Australia in the first part of the twentieth century, when there was the adoption of a policy that caused a great
gap between the settlers and the native populations. This was the enforcement of assimilation which involved taking Aboriginal children away form their families, denying them their culture and enforcing the
western values and education upon them, with the use of boarding schools. The education also included the denial of Aboriginal culture as primitive, prohibition from the use of native languages
and also the enforcement of western social values and ideals. The main aim was to integrate the aboriginal people into the main stream culture (Pilkington, 1997). Integration can take other
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