The Global Landscape of Common Values and Their Enhancement Strategies in Inclusive Education——A Systematic Review Based on the 21st Century Literature from Six Continents
Values in education are manifested in teaching interactions or deeply embedded in the educational relationships inside and outside a school,and the common values within them,which are widely recognized by society,have a far-reaching and long-lasting cultural power.A systematic review of research based on three-level coding in NVivo reveals 12 common values in integrated education worldwide condensed into 4 value groups:care,justice,democracy,and transcendence,with the sense of responsibility embedded in them.An empirical study of these common values helps to reduce the potential risk that they are likely to be blurred,weakened and formalized.The reference points highly heeded by the world's representative literature can be categorized into 8 sub-nodes of enhancement strategies,which are contained in 4 major dimensions:respecting diversity,caring for the sense of belonging,and improving educational care;empowering disabled children,protecting their equal rights,and promoting their educational justice;encouraging participation,maintaining multi-dimensional dialogs,and promoting democracy;and giving appropriate praise and recognition,promoting accessibility through flexibility,and motivating self-transcendence.All these common values point to the common good,which cannot be realized at the same time.Compared with segregated education,integrated education has a higher level of educational equity,but we need to give first priority to establishing the criteria for the evaluation of the equity of integrated education based on the substantial benefits for disabled children;cultivate disabled children according to their advantages to help them improve their sense of equity in reciprocal relationships;and pursue self-improvement and self-victory based on the dialectical view of success or failure to help them achieve high-quality educational equity.
special educationinclusive educationcommon valueseducational equity