Potential opportunities for inclusive education in ILEs - a chance too good to miss

Abstract

There is currently a lack of research in the field of inclusive education and innovative learning environments (ILE) and specific interest in the problematics of incorporating satellite buildings within the new builds. The article highlights the need to engage with the complexities of teaching students with high and very high educational needs in the design of ILEs. The research, located in Aotearoa /New Zealand, focused on a question around how the needs of children with disabilities could be addressed in ILEs. On the basis of our field work, we mobilise an argument that there are possibilities for teachers to embrace the ethos of the pedagogical shifts that are associated with inclusive education in ILE. We investigate the spatiality of inclusion that supports seamlessness (movement of children across spaces).