Developing innovative training materials for future teachers on inclusive play – that’s what PINC project is all about. After drafting the five training guides last year, in spring we tested the materials on the ground with future teachers and future sports trainers (students from Sports and Education Faculties). We wanted to know from them: how relevant and useful is such a training on accessible play, which ensures participation of children with disabilities? And which suggestions for improvement of the PINC training course do they have?
A very necessary training, we have not had content on inclusion, until now, in any subject of the degree” said a Spanish student at the end of the training.
While many students commented positively on the contents on inclusion and inclusive play, several of our pilot participants wished for even more practical advice how to concretely adapt games for children with disabilities. Thanks to the constructive comments, the PINC partnership started to re-work the PINC course contents. The partnership meeting in Palermo on 28-29 June 2022 was the starting point for this – in four groups we elaborated the major modifications. Now the work has almost been completed, and so our final training guides on inclusive play will soon be available – first in English, and then in all partner languages!
Here is a little sneak peek on what you will learn with the five PINC Training Guides:
- Guide 1 explains different models of disability and why inclusion is a right; it also presents a change model for rendering education more inclusive and compares the different states of play in inclusive education in the PINC partner countries Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy and Spain;
- Guide 2 lies a theoretical basis for inclusive play: it addresses the fundamentals of design, methodology and evaluation of play for all, starting with an awareness of social, sensory, communication and physical barriers, etc. and identifying them in the natural play environment in breaks during the school day.
- Guide 3 is conceived as a Practical Game Guide, providing guidance on how to carry out in practice the concepts delineated in the Theoretical Guide to Play. Based on Case Studies, teachers and trainers will learn how to apply the analysis model MARE for the organisation of accessible play for all pupils/children.
- Guide 4 goes beyond the school setting and explains how to build truly inclusive community environments. It provides first a conceptual framework and then practical advice for the improvement of the inclusive education process at three levels: in school, between schools and out of the school.
- Guide 5 is addressed to university teachers delivering the PINC training course and contains an overview of training objectives, activities and evaluation questions for all four modules.
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About the project
PINC – Inclusive Playgrounds is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices – Strategic Partnerships for Adult Education.
Partners
- University of Murcia (Spain, coordinator)
- Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool (Belgium)
- Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic)
- ONCE Foundation (Spain)
- University of Palermo (Italy)
- University of Thessaly (Greece)
- CESIE (Italy)
For further information
Read more about PINC, visit https://inclusiveplaygrounds.eu, and follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Contact Dorothea Urban: dorothea.urban@cesie.org.
