Comparing Inclusive Education in Turkey and Argentina

Overview & Synopsis

Comparative Education is a discipline that helps to identify the similarities and differences between two or more education systems in different cultures and countries, and which puts forward useful suggestions about the ways to educate people (Türkoglu, 1985). Ever since the Salamanca Statement (UNESCO, 1994), inclusive education has taken considerable steps globally. In this sense, governments have taken action to apply educational policies in order to eliminate students' disadvantages arising from gender, disability, culture, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, etc. The purpose of this paper is to compare inclusive education in Turkey and Argentina utilizing Bereday's (1964) comparative education model. Comparing inclusive education in Turkey and Argentina not only contributes to a better understanding of the inclusive education implications in these two developing countries, but it also helps in defining problems and proposing solutions. While inclusive education policies in Turkey focus on disabled students and students with learning difficulties, in Argentina they focus on disadvantaged groups in order to provide educational equality.