Conference: Developing an Inclusive School 26.-27.3.

We warmly welcome you to the conference Developing an Inclusive School in the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland in March 26-27, 2019. The conference is open for teachers, student teachers, teacher educators and researchers. Participating the conference is free of charge.

The conference is two-days event and the conference programme is built under two themes: Inclusive teacher education and Inclusive pedagogies. The first day includes two keynote speeches, launching an eBook "Including the North: a Comparative Study of the Policies on Inclusion and Equity in the Circumpolar North" and a symposium with three speeches and discussion. The second day consists two keynote speeches, a presentation and workshops. Each participant can choose two workshops, which are focusing on the School profiles to facilitate inclusive education in. On the evening of the second day City of Rovaniemi is hosting a reception at the Rovaniemi City Hall.

The event will be organised mainly in English. The keynote speech of Lotta Uusitalo-Malmivaara and the workshop of Aleksanteri Kenan koulu will be in Finnish. There will be simultaneous interpretation for the keynote speech.

The conference is organised in collaboration with following projects:

UArctic Thematic Network on Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity is cooperative network of over twenty member institutions from Arctic and beyond. The TN hosts a Arctic Council SDWG project Teacher Education for Diversity and Equality in the Arctic, which has produced a book on inclusive practices in ten countries. The electronic version of the book will be launched during the conference.

Preconditions of transformation of education process in different educational contexts by applying inclusive education strategies is a project of four universities and their partner schools, aiming to create an innovative Transformative Educational Methodology based on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and grounded on the values and socio-cultural environment guaranteeing child well-being. The project is funded by Erasmus+ and the conference is a part of dissemination activities of the project.

Supporting together! is a project aims to implement a teacher training development program, to develop teacher training skills and to develop the contents of special teacher education. The project is collaboration between six Finnish teacher training units and a network of experts.

Tuesday 26/3: Inclusive teacher education

Wednesday 27/3: Inclusive pedagogies

Get to know the partner schools!
ZSO, Poland
Aleksanteri Kenan koulu, Finland
LWS Steinbrechergasse, Austria
Vilnius Balsiu School, Lithuania

General information

Venue map

Map of Rovaniemi

Registration to the conference in advance is required. Registration is free of charge.

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Please choose the language in the buttons left on the top: in Finnish (Suomeksi) or in English (Englanniksi).

We recommend you to start your travel arrangements as soon as possible, as March is tourist season in Finland and the hotels and accommodation are usually booked very early.

Useful information on travelling and staying in Rovaniemi

The eBook "Including the North: a Comparative Study of the Policies on Inclusion and Equity in the Circumpolar North" is product of Arctic Council's Sustainable Development Working Group project Teacher Education for Diversity and Equality in the Arctic, implemented by UArctic Thematic Network on Teacher Education. The project is funded by Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture through IBA allowance of Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. The project supports the priorities of Finnish Chairmanship of Arctic Council in the field of Education.

Project Preconditions of transformation of education process in different educational contexts by applying inclusive education strategies is funded by Erasmus+ programme of European Union.