2009 - Vol. 3 Num. 1  
           
 
The Process of a Specific Center for the Deaf towards a more inclusive Education. Gaudem School Madrid
 
           
  Pilar Alonso, Pilar Rodríguez y Gerardo Echeita
     
  Abstract      
     
 

In this paper are describe in a narrative way  some key facts and conditions in the changing  and developing process hold since this foundation – forty five years ago  as an Special School for Deaf-, by the Colegio Hispano Americano de la Palabra in Madrid,  until  became an inclusive ordinary school called Colegio Gaudem, also in Madrid. This new ordinary school wants to develop an inclusive project in which deaf student remains in the core of it, through a share bilingual educative approach. Some lessons learned about this changing process in the educative perspective about deaf education are made explicit and take into consideration regarding the dilemmas the Colegio Gaudem has to face up to keep alive his aims, principles and values according within the new context.

 
     
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Deaf students; bilingual deaf education; case study; change, innovation and improvement; inclusive education.

 
     
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Alonso, P., Rodríguez, P. y Echeita, G. (2009). El proceso de un centro específico de sordos hacia una educación más inclusiva. Colegio Gaudem, Madrid. Revista Latinoamericana de Educación Inclusiva, 3(1), pp. 167-187.
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