Portugal is one of the OECD countries with the most legislation on inclusive education, but has difficulties in enforcing it
Portugal has llegislation on inclusive education “one of the most comprehensive in OECD countries”but presents difficulties in its application. The conclusion is from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in an assessment carried out in 2021. According to the newspaper “Público”, the OECD sees how to obstruct what is its main “innovation”: To be aimed at all students and not just those who need educational specials.
In the OECD schools he visited, he discovered “a genuinely inclusive environment”. However, in Portugal it detected that the segregation of immigrant students in schools is “most prevalent” than in most OECD countries. Furthermore, a most teachers have no training in the area of inclusive educationwhich places Portugal as one of the countries with one of the lowest rates of teachers with this type of knowledge.
The OECD also highlights that, in Portugal, classroom practices considerably considerably “within schools and schools from school to school”, thus creating inequalities. The Ministry of Education states that the study was carried out at its request, designed that “this is a work in progress, which requires continued work and effort from everyone lags behind and that each student is taken to their fullest potential”.