RUSSIAN SOCIETY’S READINESS TO IMPLEMENT INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Abstract

The article discusses issues of implementing inclusive education in Russian educational institutions, identifies areas to overcome shortcomings in this area, and reveals the features of social adaptation of children with disabilities based on inclusion in creative activities, analyzes results of a survey of parents of children with disabilities and healthy children studying at the choral school “Youth of Russia”, conducted as part of the project “Let’s Feel the Music” presented at the competition “My Country – My Russia”. The survey reveals the attitude of parents to joint education of children with disabilities and healthy children, to participation in social projects aimed at developing the creative potential of such children; features of additional conditions for the implementation of the educational process in creative teams; specifics of the selection of specialists and prospects for the future of children with disabilities. The main methods of research of the problem are methods of information search, factor and statistical analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, and the survey method.