Listening and Advocacy Importance in Inclusive Education

Abstract

Inclusive education instructs students in the same classroom environment where their distinct diversity and valuable contributions are always well received. Students feel comfortable, safe, and motivated to do their best in a truly inclusive environment. Inclusive education is an ever-evolving dynamic and continuous process. This chapter looks at the importance of listening and advocacy in inclusion. There is still a developing body of research and literature regarding how listening and advocacy can enhance inclusion. However, when this non-empirical research was done, there was no tangible evidence to affirm that there is a connection between listening, advocacy, and inclusion. Because of this lack of research and paucity of literature in this important area, there is an obvious gap, and this research seeks to fill it. It analyzed published literature on inclusion, listening, and advocacy. Published research indicated that there exists a dearth of information that identifies the correlation between listening, advocacy, and inclusion.