Changing The InclUSiVe Model: The PeRSonal EdUcaTional NeedS

Abstract

The inclusive paradigm has meant great advances in the education of students with special educational needs, but it has maintained its labeling, interpreting them as those who should be included compared to the rest that it includes. In this context, this article is committed to a change towards a personalized paradigm in which no student is labeled, but rather each student is considered special and different from the rest and can receive an education adapted to their Personal Educational Needs (PEN). This concept of PEN allows attention and educational response to be focused on what each boy and girl needs to develop their individual potential to the maximum, avoiding falling into reductionisms of diversity that perpetuate ableism and segregating practices on the most vulnerable groups. Thus, this paper presents the approach to this concept and the paradigm that frames it, offering its definition and describing the principles on which it is based. Likewise, some of the national and supranational sources that it takes as reference and that justify and scientifically support its proposal are addressed, to finally conclude by explaining the reasons why this conceptual and paradigmatic change is urgent and a priority to create true schools for all.