Het Samenwerkingsverband PO3002 werkt samen met het NCOJ (Nederlands Centrum voor Onderwijs en Jeugdzorg) aan een project om de ontwikkelingen rond inclusief onderwijs landelijk in kaart te krijgen en vooral om na te gaan welke behoeften er in het veld zijn om de beweging richting meer inclusief te maken. Vanuit het NCOJ wordt deelgenomen aan een internationaal platform met enkele buitenlandse hoogleraren om gezamenlijk aan activiteiten op het gebied van onderzoek en ontwikkeling rond inclusiever onderwijs te werken.
Het Samenwerkingsverband PO3002 is in de gelegenheid gesteld om op een (helaas) korte termijn in gesprek te gaan met een aantal internationale kopstukken uit de wereld van Inclusief Onderwijs. Op 13 april a.s. van 15.30-17.00 zijn professor Dolf van Veen (NCOJ), professor Kiki Messiou (Universiteit van Southampton) en professor Mel Ainscow (Universiteit van Glasgow en Cambridge) te gast bij het samenwerkingsverband en zijn graag bereid in gesprek te gaan met bestuurders/schoolleiders/intern begeleiders/jeugdprofessionals/gemeentebesturen over jullie vragen, voornemens rond het werken aan inclusiever onderwijs, of specifieke vragen over bijvoorbeeld het ontwikkelen van een gemeenschappelijke visie, vergroten van draagvlak bij onderwijsbestuurders, scholen of juist gemeenten, of bijv. het opzetten van leernetwerken/professionaliseringsactiviteiten, of het betrekken van leerlingen bij het werken aan inclusiever onderwijs.

Professor Mel Ainscow is bijna op alle onderwerpen expert en inzetbaar, vindt het leuk om mee te denken en met jullie eigen medewerkers te overleggen/mee te denken en is bij uitstek ook goed in meedoen in samenspraak met bestuurders en wethouders.

Professor Kiki Messiou is bij uitstek deskundige in het betrekken van leerlingen bij het werken aan inclusiever onderwijs.

De deelname aan deze bijeenkomst is gelimiteerd tot maximaal 20 personen en vindt plaats bij het kantoor van OBO West-Brabant, Gastelseweg 142 te Roosendaal.

Voor inschrijving kunt u op onderstaande link klikken.

Informatie over onze gasten:

Mel Ainscow

Mel Ainscow, Emeritus Professor of Education, is internationally recognized as an authority on the promotion of inclusion and equity in education. Previously a head teacher, local education authority adviser and lecturer at the University of Cambridge, his work focuses on ways of making schools effective for all children and young people. A distinctive feature of his approach is the emphasis he places on carrying out research with schools and education systems to promote improvements.

A long-term consultant to UNESCO, Mel is currently working to promote equity and inclusion globally. He is also a consultant to an initiative organised by the Organization of American States, which is supporting national developments in nine Latin American countries. He has recently completed collaborative research projects with networks of schools in five European countries.

Mel led the Greater Manchester Challenge a three-year project that involved a partnership between national government, ten local authorities, 1,150 schools and many other stakeholders, and had a government investment of around £50 million. He went on to lead Schools Challenge Cymru, the Welsh Government’s multi-million pound flagship programme to accelerate the rate of improvement across the country’s schools, focusing in particular on the progress of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

In addition to his post at Manchester, Mel is Professor of Education at the University of Glasgow, Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology and Honorary Professor of Practice at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He has published extensively in practitioner and international research journals.  His recent books include: ‘Struggles for equity in education: The selected works of Mel Ainscow’(Routledge World Library of Educationalists series). In the Queen’s 2012 New Year Honours list he was made a CBE for services to education.

Kiki Messiou

Kiki Messiou is Professor within Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton.  She is currently the Director of Research in Southampton Education School (Deputy Head of School).

Kiki joined the University of Southampton in October 2012. Her research interests are in the area of inclusive education and, in particular, in exploring children’s and young people’s voices to understand notions of marginalisation and develop inclusive practices in schools. She is particularly interested in research with children and young people and methodological issues related to this issue. These themes are the focus of her publications. This is summed up in the following statement in her book, ‘Confronting marginalisation in education: A framework for promoting inclusion’.

Listening to children in relation to inclusion in schools is a manifestation of being inclusive.

Kiki is a regular contributor to international conferences, such as AERA, BERA and ECER and has given invited keynote presentations in various countries such as Austria, Cyprus, England, Italy, South Africa and Spain. In 2019 she received the BERA Conference SIG (Inclusive Education) Best Paper Award.  In the same year, she was invited to Stanford University to talk about her research and to explore possibilities for collaborative work with schools in Palo Alto and Southampton.

She led a three-year (2017-2020) European Union funded study “Reaching the ‘hard to reach’: Inclusive responses to diversity through child-teacher dialogue”. The study involved five countries (Austria, Denmark, England, Spain, Portugal), with partners from universities and primary schools in each country. It focused on developing effective strategies for including all children in lessons, particularly those who might be seen as ‘hard to reach’. This built on her earlier collaborative teacher development and research project funded by the European Union Executive Agency (2011-2014) entitled “Responding to diversity by engaging with students’ voices: a strategy for teacher development” and involved researchers and practitioners from three countries: Portugal, Spain and the UK. Furthermore, Kiki collaborated with colleagues from Italy (co-ordinators), Spain, Cyprus and Poland, for the INTO (‘Intercultural Mentoring tools to support migrant integration at school’) project funded by the European Union. This project involved schools from Hampshire and Southampton and focused on the role of secondary school students in becoming mentors to support migrant students during a difficult time of their school life.

Kiki started her career as a primary school teacher in Cyprus and completed her postgraduate studies at the University of Manchester. She has extensive experience of working in schools as a teacher and as a researcher. After completing her PhD, she returned back to Cyprus where she worked as a mainstream class teacher and as a part time lecturer at the University of Nicosia, teaching Special/Inclusive Education. In 2007 she joined the University of Hull where she was programme director for the Masters in Inclusive Education and the BA in Education, Social Inclusion and Special Needs programme. She also established and led the Inclusion Research Group in the Hull Faculty of Education. In Southampton, she led the BSc Education/BSc Education and Psychology programmes.

Dolf van Veen

Dolf van Veen, hoofd van het NCOJ, is bijzonder hoogleraar Grootstedelijk Onderwijs en Jeugdbeleid aan de Universiteit van Nottingham en buitengewoon hogeschoolhoofddocent aan de Hogeschool Windesheim. Zijn affiniteit ligt vooral bij praktijkgericht onderzoek ten behoeve van lerarenopleidingen en het onderwijsveld. Zijn aandachtsgebieden zijn vooral leerkrachtondersteuning ten behoeve van passend onderwijs en de samenwerking tussen onderwijs en jeugdzorg.