KIU hosted The International Forum "Successive System of Inclusive Education: Modern Challenges". This year, the forum was marked by a wide geography of participants and a particularly diverse program, including the international contest on sociocultural and educational inclusion “Together - we are power!”, the International Inclusive Festival and the XII International Scientific and Practical Conference "Successive System of Inclusive Education: Modern Challenges". Representatives of such countries as Russia, Kazakhstan, USA, Italy, Peru became participants of the program.
The mission of this year's forum is defined as promoting the values and strategies of inclusive education and socio-cultural inclusion, expanding the scope of psychological and pedagogical research in the field of inclusion, organizing scientific dialogue, and promoting the improvement of the quality of inclusive education.
One of the objectives of the forum was to identify problem areas and difficulties in the implementation of inclusive education. To solve this problem, a survey was conducted among teachers of the Republic of Tatarstan in the amount of 2221 people and 7 sections were organized to discuss the work of teachers with children with different nosologies. The teachers of the Department of Theoretical and Inclusive Pedagogy of KIU and the Research Institute of Pedagogical Innovations and Inclusive Education of KIU did an excellent job with these tasks. The results of this work will form the basis of the roadmap for joint activities of KIU and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan. In total, about 1,000 people participated in the forum this year.
The organizer and supervisor of the forum was the Vice-Rector for Continuing Education, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of the Higher School of Russia Dania Akhmetova with her team.
Three days of the forum passed with the maximum involvement in its organization and holding of educational organizations, NGOs, associations and research teams of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia and a number of foreign countries. On March 15, an international contest on sociocultural and educational inclusion “Together - we are power!” was organized for schoolchildren and students. On March 16, a colorful and at the same time incredibly touching international inclusive festival was held on the basis of the Children's Center "Ekiyat" ("Fairy Tale") of the Republic of Tatarstan. Creative groups of children with disabilities performed in the concert hall.
On the last day of the forum, the XII International Scientific and Practical Conference "Successive System of Inclusive Education: Modern Challenges" was held, which brought together more than 240 representatives of schools, kindergartens, the Department of Education and Universities of Russia, some of the participants were able to connect to the conference online or watch the recording ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RkBFBsuVQE).
Director of the Research Institute of Pedagogical Innovations and Inclusive Education of KIU Daniya Akhmetova, Rector of KIU Asiya Timiryasova, Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the VIII Convocation Artyom Prokofiev spoke at the opening of the conference.
As well as the rector of the Almaty Humanitarian and Economic University Valery Korvyakov, the president of the ANCO "Belaya Trost'" ("White Cane") Oleg Kolpashchikov, the security director of the OKEY Group and a graduate of KIU Dmitry Likhov, honorary professor of the National University of the North-East (Argentina) Franco Claudio Grossi.
In her welcoming speech, Rector of KIU Asiya Timiryasova drew the attention of the audience to the relevance of the forum theme “We know that the problem of education has always been one of the most pressing universal problems, the right to education is realized on such principles as accessibility and adaptability.[…] When compiling the forum program, we tried to make it as practical as possible. The works of our colleagues from different countries and regions of Russia, submitted for discussion at this conference, show an amazing collection of different methods to achieve the set goals. I wish productive work to all participants of the conference!”.
Head of the General Education Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan Tatyana Alekseeva thanked the University for holding the forum, because “if each of us works in our own segment, sees difficulties and tries to solve them alone, there is certainly a result, but it is much less than if we would work together. And we are together, and I thank you for this opportunity.” During her speech, she presented a letter of thanks from the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Tatarstan to the rector of KIU Asiya Timiryasova and the vice-rector for continuing education of KIU Daniya Akhmetova.
During the conference, the speakers presented their experience in researching inclusive education technologies, interaction of educational organizations of all levels in the “kindergarten-school-college-university” system to create effective practices, analyze domestic and foreign technologies for inclusive education, and forecast the prospects for strengthening trends in the development of inclusive education.