Inclusive Education, Children’s Development, and Health

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, inclusive education is a key international priority. Inclusive education aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, contributing to development. All children within human diversity need quality education to develop their skills and realize their full potential. Education enables students to develop a broad range of skills, competences, traits, values and attitudes, which will also impact health outcomes. Education creates opportunities for an active life based on informed decisions. Education is linked to health through complex links, and it is closely tied to income and to the skills and opportunities that all persons have to lead healthy and fulfilled lives in community settings. Both education and health are at the center of individual and population health and well-being. Although (inclusive) education has a tremendous impact in all children’s development and health interventions, multiple context-specific challenges and opportunities remain in every setting. Progress is made slowly. To close the education gap for children with educational support needs, efforts must be made to foster and monitor inclusive education systems, requiring changes at the macro, meso and micro levels. The articles included in this Special Issue are intended to provide the entire education community with new understanding and offer insights informed by sound theoretical frameworks and evidence-based inquiry. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• International, national and local policy;
• Monitoring the impact of legislation on inclusive education;
• Early childhood intervention;
• Teachers’ professional development/training
• Curriculum;
• Behavior and classroom management;
• Assessment (including instruments validation) and placement;
• The identification of educational variables/predictors on children’s development;
• Science-based and evidence-based practices;
• Transition and career development;
• Assistive and augmentative technology and instructional technology.

Dr. Sofia Santos
Dr. Paula Lebre
Dr. Celeste Simöes
Guest Editors

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