TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Special education today in the Ukraine is dramatically different than its early origins which stressed communal guardianship for persons with disabilities to its current movement to inclusive education. The journey to inclusive education was inconsistent due to a variety of elements such as the collapse of the Russian Monarchy, a series of different governments and social-political structures, World War II and membership in the USSR which stressed a unification of the education system. However, special education professionals who worked at the Special Education Pedagogy Institute of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences continued to research and develop a philosophical instructional framework to educate students with disabilities that includes theoretical and practical aspects of inclusive education. This chapter provides a detailed description of this framework as well as prevalence and school placements aspects, classification and assessment parameters, and the impact of legislation for free public education. The chapter concludes with challenges to inclusive education such as attitude modification, infusing necessary teacher instructional strategies, and the incorporation of best practices from special education to regular education settings.
VL  - 28
SN  - 978-1-78441-096-4/0270-4013
DO  - 10.1108/S0270-401320140000028017
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0270-401320140000028017
AU  - Kolupayeva Alla
AU  - Taranchenko Oksana
AU  - Danilavichute Elyana
PY  - 2014
Y1  - 2014/01/01
TI  - Special Education Today in Ukraine
T2  - Special Education International Perspectives: Practices Across the Globe
T3  - Advances in Special Education
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 311
EP  - 351
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -