Inclusion is when personal bias and presumptions about people different than yourself, and allow those different people to be assimilated into a friend group, work group, or any other groups of people. Collusion is when the inclusion is rejected and those people are unjustly denied the access to those groups because a certain person deems them not good enough. Including children with exceptionalities is an important practice because that student deserves to be treated and educated the same as a student without any exceptionalities. If we exclude them from those experiences, there won't be another opportunity for those students to have them. A way to be more inclusive to students with exceptionalities is by simply understanding they may not be just like yourself, but still treating them with the same respect and holding them to the same esteem as we would other students.
Yes, Nikolas, personal bias and presumptions about other peopl certainly get in the way of inclusion! Inclusion is the act of pulling someone in. It sound so easy but it takes practice and dedication. When I was in my 30s, I have a group of friends who got together regularly. Whenever we got together at my house, I invited some other people. Sometimes it would be someone that I really liked to introduce everyone to each other and sometimes it would be someone who I thought might need a friend. After a while the friends got tired of my extending the invitation to EVERYONE! It made them uncomfortable and it make the group too large. I don't hang out with those friends much any more, but I always remembered that some people just really don't want to meet new and/or different people.
Treating people with respect is so important. That is always important.
Treating people with respect is so important. That is always important.