Object of research: primary school pupils’ inclusive education.
Subject of research: pedagogical conditions for individualization of primary school pupils’ inclusive education.
The purpose of the study: to substantiate and experimentally test the effectiveness of pedagogical conditions for individualization of primary school pupils’ inclusive education.
The scientific novelty of the obtained results:
The pedagogical conditions for individualization of primary school pupils’ inclusive education (formation of stable motivation to learn in the process of pupils’ intellectual and personal development; formation of educational and developmental environment for independent learning; provision of correctional assistance to pupils with special needs in the process of individual educational and cognitive activities) are theoretically substantiated and experimentally tested.
The realization process of pedagogical conditions for individualization of primary school pupils’ inclusive education, covering motivational, semantic and procedural components of educational activity, is modelled. The model reflects the purpose, principles, objectives and content of the inclusive education individualization process; forms and methods of work in the conditions of inclusion; criteria and indicators; formation of knowledge about the independent learning features; ability to understand and adjust one’s own learning activity, to determine the levels of independent educational and cognitive activities (initial, average, sufficient).
In the course of the research the basic concepts (individualization, inclusion, primary school pupils’ inclusive education) in the context of primary school educational process are specified and the author’s definition of the inclusive education individualization concept is formulated. Under this concept we understand the process of implementing the individual approach, which takes into account individual psychophysiological features in the organization of common educational work of ordinary pupils and pupils with special educational needs, the result of which is the formation of their independent learning activities.
The content, methods and forms of individualization of pupils’ with special needs education have been further developed.
The experimental study was conducted in three stages. At the ascertaining stage of the experiment with the help of diagnostic methods the initial level of primary school pupils’ with special needs independent educational and cognitive activity components formation was determined. The formative stage consisted in substantiation of effective receptions, forms and methods of formation of levels of primary school pupils’ with special needs independent educational and cognitive activity components formation by innovative means of correctional training. The control stage of the experiment was to determine the effectiveness of pedagogical conditions and correctional assistance influence on the formation of primary school pupils’ with special needs independent educational and cognitive activities components.
The performed diagnostics of primary school pupils’ with special needs independent educational and cognitive activity components formation established: a sufficient level of primary school pupils’ with special needs independent educational and cognitive activity was formed in 2 pupils (7.4%), average — in 12 (44.4%) pupils, initial — in 13 (48.2%). The reason for this is the weak implementation of a systematic approach to the organization of inclusive education in primary school; insufficient consideration of pupils’ individual educational needs; fragmentary training of primary school teachers to organize inclusive education for this category of pupils.
The program of inclusive education was aimed at forming the following components of independent educational and cognitive activities of pupils with special educational needs: motivational-value, semantic and activity-productive.
To test the effectiveness of experimental training at the final stage of the experiment, a control section was performed using a set of research methods (solving cognitive tasks, observation, conversation, analysis of educational products), analysed the data and interpreted its results.
Analysis of the results of the formative stage of the experimental study showed the effectiveness of pedagogical conditions. This is evidenced by the positive changes in the levels of independent educational and cognitive activities components formation of primary school children with special needs from experimental groups (EG): the number of EG pupils who reached sufficient and average levels increased by 18.5% and 19.4%, and in control groups (CG) — by 3.6%. The number of pupils with the initial level in EG decreased by –37.9%, and in CG –3.6%, respectively.
