China And The United States Inclusive Education Research

Inclusive education emerged in 1990s as an international trend of educational thoughts. With the rising thoughts of educational equality, educational democratization and Education for All, and also with every country's pursuit of educational equality and democratization, the conception of inclusive education was accepted all over the world and many countries have begun to put it into practice. By selecting USA's and China's education as an object, this paper presents a comparative study of the two countries' inclusive education, introducing their respective development and practice, analyzing and evaluating their different characteristics and common experience in inclusive education, and proposing the author's advice on China's inclusive education by combining the USA's successful experience and China's particular situation.This paper is arranged in three chapters. Chapter one, Focusing on USA's Developing Inclusive Education, analyses the development, the legislation and the specific practice of inclusive education in USA in four parts. The first part demonstrates the historical development of USA's inclusive education, which can be classified as four phases, and makes a comparative analysis. The second part introduces USA's legislation on inclusive education. Three key bills are especially mentioned in order to clarify how USA develops inclusive education by providing necessary legislation. The third part deals with certain concepts, mainly the USA's theoretical research on and particular understanding of inclusive education. The fourth part summarizes USA's specific practice on inclusive education: financial budget, organization and placement, class arrangement, qualification of teachers, community support.Chapter two, Focusing on China's Transitional Educational Conception: From Integrated Education to Inclusive Education, makes an introduction of inclusive education under integrated education, and puts forward some proposals on the model and practice of developing from integrated education into inclusive education. The first part of this chapter introduces the background of China's inclusive education development. It reveals the international efforts toward inclusive education and its influence on China's development of integrated education. The second part concerns with the practical realization of inclusive education under integrated education in China. The third part suggests that China is developing integrated education into inclusive education. Based on much effort made by China, the author proposes a reasonable model and some practical measures as to developing inclusive education in China.Chapter three, Implication: Comments and Advice on China's Practice of Inclusive Education, sums up the different characteristics and common experience in inclusive education between USA and China. As a conclusion, the author makes some comments and proposes some advice on China's inclusive education by combining international successful experience and China's Particular situation.