Organization and Human Resource for Supporting Integrated Education of Children with Special Educational Needs

Anikó Mile

Authors

Anikó Mile Eötvös Loránd University

Keywords:

children with special educational needs (SEN), disabilities, integrated education, mainstream schools, resource centre

Abstract

In the second half of the last century the special needs education’s experiences highlighted the attention to the negative effects of the segregated education, the selection and segregation mechanisms. In accordance with international trends educational initiations were launched in relation to integrated education of children with special educational needs in Hungary. While integrated education has become widely accepted, the normal pedagogy’s demand for special knowledge emerged. It became apparent that the integrated education of children with special educational needs can be optimally achieved only in cooperation with the special schools and teachers.

Author Biography

Anikó Mile, Eötvös Loránd University

Anikó Mile is a qualified teacher of special education and a PhD student in the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of Eötvös Loránd University. In the frame of her researches she analyses the conditions of integrated education of children with special educational needs. Her research areas also include the issue of special education teachers’ changing roles. As a practising teacher she leads an institution of special education methodology in Székesfehérvár. Beside this activity she gives lectures in the Department of Applied Pedagogy of Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences as a part time teacher.