Preschool inclusion

It has been almost thirty years since the adoption of the world-famous The Salamanca Statement on Principles, Policy And Practice in Special Needs Education (Salamanca, Spain, June 7-10, 1994), which laid the foundations for inclusive education policy and practice.

Since then, specialized international journals have appeared, dozens of conferences have been held, thousands of articles and hundreds of books on this topic have been published, but scholars have paid very little attention to inclusive processes in non-Western contexts. Recently, Russia, Kazakhstan and China have been gradually integrating into the global processes of reforming educational systems in the direction of inclusion with the legislative framework approved in Kazakhstan in 2011, Russia in 2012, and China in 2014.

An international research project led by Professor and head of the laboratory Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Professor of Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan) Filiz Polat, with the participation of senior research fellow at the ILSIR Irina Zangieva, research assistant at the ILSIR Jiayi Xu, HSE student Anna Lyamzina and colleagues from the partner NGO "Center for Curative Pedagogics''. It is aimed at comparative analysis of the challenges posed by the course on the inclusion of children with special educational needs and disabilities in three countries through the eyes of educators and heads of preschool programs.

The project involves conducting an online survey and interviews with educators in Russia and China (the survey has already been conducted in Kazakhstan).