PASS Neuro-cognitive basis for Inclusive Education

"<< Background >>The Salamanca statement proclaim that education systems should take into account the diversity of unique characteristics, interests, abilities and learning needs. To meet this diversities and the needs of children, was our core objective, applying for this project. This core need creates several needs in the system. Teachers need knowledge helpful in understanding and addressing the diversity of abilities and learning needs. Supporters for teachers need to know how to support this. Teacher educators need to have general knowledge about the range of possible abilities and learning needs to be able to mediate this to their students. We have experienced how the PASS neurocognitive theory provided tools for such knowledge - possible to mediate to the relatively small group of students we meet. We have experienced how this knowledge provides a basis for understanding and meeting the needs of diverse children that we have worked with. To strengthen this work, and demonstrate its general impact in the field, we wanted get related to professionals in research and practice from other European countries, familiar with the PASS theory. We also wanted to include the practice field, in particular the PPT, but also teachers. << Objectives >>Through years part our work in Pedverket Kompetanse has been mediating the PASS theory and its applications to practitioners in PPT, school and kindergarten. It has been a ""bottom-up"" enterprise, and as such quite successful. With this project we wanted knowledge about the PASS theory to be more common, and knowledge about the PASS theory to be known - because we strongly believe this will be beneficial for teachers in supporting their ""tool-box"" and when and how to use it. It will provide knowledge and experiences important for knowing how meet the diversities of characteristics, interests, abilities and learning needs in children and adolescents and provide opportunities to achieve and maintain an acceptable level of learning - to use the terms from the Salamanca statement. We wanted to share such knowledge on a general level for university and university college level, and more specific in the areas of education; school and kindergarten, school psychology services (in Norway PPT), and other support systems important for inclusive education (e.g. in Norway Statped). We also wanted to establish a European network merging research and practice for common work to the benefit for European children/adolescents at risk of exclusion<< Implementation >>We implemented four activities in the project. 1. A PASS seminar - announced as a conference - two days with presentations covering the range of our objectives, but all with roots in the PASS theory, demonstrating its generality and importance in understanding human learning and behavior2. A booklet containing summaries of presentations. We did not allocate great resources to this, the idea was brief presentations - but allowing partners to extend the scope if they wanted - at their own costs. For the invited speakers, we asked for this within the frames of the payment they were offered for their presentations. 3. Application for a larger project with the same objectives, but with a larger scale of activities and a larger number of participants (KA220-SCH-9D1EDE04). We started this work before the project period, hence all partners had invested work-time in this activity previous to the project. Only the three final weeks of the application period was included in the project, as the consortium decided to go for the 2022 call.4. Publishing of Grunnlaget, English version of a guidebook developed to address basic concept teaching, relevant because it addresses all four PASS processes, and is suited for inclusion.<< Results >>Conference/seminar, title PASS neuro-cognitive basis for inclusive education 8-9 september 2022. Physical participants 28 in Litteraturhuset- Oslo. Online participants 92 on youtube; after the conference additional ca 150 Attached: Program ind information of the venue; Presentation of speakers, link to Youtube video of the conference.Booklets Booklet 1: PASS a neuro-cognitive basis for inclusive education This turns out to be more comprehensive than we indicated in the application. It will be printed and also available online through Pedverket Kompetanse's website and in the EU database. Presentations attached.Booklet 2: Printing and distribution of GRUNNLAGET english version - sharing 50/50 with other project :ASUMIE KA 220 pages: 140 . The content was developed earlier - the printed version was used in dissemination and information about the PASS theory and the PASSie project. Pdf is attached.Planning and writing application for a new project KA220-SCH-9D1EDE04 . Not approved, but it will be basis for a future application. Application attached.Other outputs:Strengthen relations between professionals working in this field1) Between project partners and invited speakers - 2) Between participants and speakers"