Section 1 of our submission details the concept that inclusion is for everyone – inclusion benefits everyone.

Inclusion is often discussed in a disability or minority focused lens. It’s discussed in the sense of changing a pre-existing education model to expand to capture other students, but that is much more characteristic of ‘integration’ than it is of true inclusion. Students want to see the framework of the education system change to see inclusion as the norm, to seeing the concept of including, understanding and supporting applied to all students, rather than just students with recognised disabilities or of minority group status. Students want to see a classroom that is welcoming, safe and valuing of every student, rather than a classroom that shifts to integrate a disabled student, without actually changing any of its underlying structure and issues that made it inaccessible in the first place.

Check out our Section 1 report below!