The social dimension of inclusion between rights and citizenship

This publication was developed under the European Union funded TEMPUS project “Modernizing Teacher Education at the University of Prishtina”. This monograph provides insights into identifying the important dimensions of teacher education that need to be addressed in order to produce the desired teacher professionalism as well as the development of the teaching profession in general. This publication is a response to this new reality of viewing teacher education. It is written from a perspective of summarizing the general literature trends and debates in the specific area including the tendency of providing a model for viewing teacher education reform by bringing together all relevant elements of a bigger framework in which teacher education is embedded. In particular, this contribution is related to the need of responding to the challenge of developing inclusive practices in schools and the need to develop teachers who respond to this challenge, analyzing the social dimension of inclusion which emphasizes the elements of the human right to education and citizenship.