All teams are diverse, all students are diverse!
To optimise education and learning for all students, we need to create schools as inclusive settings in which students learn in a sustainable way for a better society and future.
Effective professional learning of teachers happens in professional learning communities where teachers creatively co-create the knowledge and skills necessary for inclusive school settings and sustainable learning. The INCLUSION² project distinguishes itself by focusing on co-creation with school teams in school education, by developing sustainable and inclusive school practices by making use of that very diversity in the teams.
The co-creation process searches for the best explanation, solution, product, or understanding that a team can put together. All participants in a Professional Learning Community (PLC) are legitimate contributors to community goals and take joint responsibility for advancing the community’s knowledge (and not just their individual learning). Team co-creation is a process of democratizing knowledge. All PLC participants are empowered as legitimate contributors to the shared goals; all take pride in the knowledge advances of the community.
Diversity and divisional differences are viewed as strengths rather than as leading to separation. Everyone’s ideas are needed and encouraged. That makes this project distinguishable from other projects.
This partnership will delve into the local needs for inclusive education and learning for a sustainable future. At school policy level, we want to support schools to create inclusive education and learning for a sustainable future. This will be done through creative co-creation processes, which is a bottom-up approach. Through the project, we will develop professional learning for teams on the INCLUSION² theme and work towards convincing policy-makers using this bottom-up approach.
INCLUSION² is an Erasmus+ funded project.
