Inclusive Education. Press Analysis

Abstract

In the last thirty decades, the emphasis has been on inclusive education as an engine of transformation and humanization of society. In this sense, the issue of educating children with special educational needs (SEN) is in the attention of decision makers, actors in education and last but not least the media. The purpose of our research is to conduct an analysis of local media articles to identify factors that contribute to the inclusion of children with SEN as reflected in online media. The method used is content analysis, and the analyzed corpus consists of 71 articles from the online newspaper Ziarul de Iasi, from 01 January 2020 to 31 January 2022. The research found that the written press reflects the following factors that contribute to the inclusion of children with special educational needs: community involvement, dissemination of projects, increased awareness of legal rights, condemnation of reprehensible acts, such as abuse of this category of children.