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Makale Özeti:
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Inclusive education today is a main issue and requirement of all European institutions in the European Union, the European
Council, among experts, NGOs and individuals. This research represents a study of different concepts and implementation of
inclusive education in Europe and Kosovo. The paper is a result of a research of education systems, systems of support,
legislation and evaluation of positive practice in the countries of the European Union and Kosovo. After the elaboration of
the basic philosophy of inclusive education, which shows that inclusive education is the best solution to include the children
with special educational needs (further SEN) in the education system, the main research questions were indentified for thi s
study. The aim of the research, besides defining the most current definitions, is description of education systems of
individual countries, practical review of inclusion of children with disabilities and children in multilingual environments ,
financial capabilities of implementation of inclusive process and prevalence of the groups of children engaged in the
research. The research sample consists of 6 countries from Europe and Kosovo. The condition for the research countries to
be included in the sample is based on the population number not being larger than 8 million. Because of the relevance of the
comparative analysis, two older state members of the European Union were chosen (Austria, the Flemish and the French
region of Belgium), two members of the European Union (Estonia and Slovenia), two Scandinavian countries (Finland and
Norway) and Kosovo. Kosovo has received the status of a potential candidate for European Union membership.
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