BARRIER-FREE LEARNING AND PARTICIPATION, A RESPONSE TO THE NEEDS OF THE REGULAR CLASSROOM

Abstract

Integration and inclusion are terms we use nowadays in education. Beyond what is stated in curricula and syllabuses, and what the media sells us, we can ask ourselves, do we really know what it means and what it entails? This article is the product of a research study in the primary education field, where teachers are the main source of information, using qualitative methodology in its broadest sense of research that produces descriptive data. This is described as the study of people based on what people say and do in the social and cultural scenario. With this enquiry, the main objective is to find out how much is known about inclusiveeducation and the learning needs of learners, what reasonable accommodations are described in planning or assessment indicators. And, whether teachers do or do not do them, or simply use the terms, but do not do or do not carry out the guidelines set out in their planning. Whether they really know what are the BAPs (Barriers to Learning and Participation) that their students face. This being the watershed of the famous so-called inclusive education, this is described as the process of addressing and responding to the diversity of needs of all learners through inclusive educational practices. However, despite advances in science, changes in educational models, ways of thinking and changes in curricula, throughout this research we realise that many teachers continue with long-standing archaic attitudes and refuse to make changes. They continue to carry out a disproportionate and inadequate load of activities that are not meaningful and do not guarantee significant learning for the learner.