– Pedro Daniel Oliveira
“Portugal is now a worldwide case study, because we are one of the countries of the world with a higher rate of students with difficulties and disabilities educated in regular schools. Those students are 98.5% in total,” University of Lisbon Professor David Rodrigues told O CLARIM last Wednesday.
He said this achievement was made with a set of structures that were implemented from the political side, since 1,500 special education teachers are in schools exclusively to support students with difficulties in Portugal.
“We have 100 centers for inclusion in schools to provide support with competent staff for the children in need. And we have 25 digital technology centers to support inclusion,” he added.
Professor David Rodrigues talked with us right before the public lecture “Inclusive Education in Portugal: the challenge to educate all with all”, that he delivered in the Ilha Verde Campus of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ). He is Visiting Professor at USJ, and National Counselor of Education in Portugal.
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