mainstreaming
Joining regular classrooms
Mainstreaming is the practice of integrating people or ideas into the dominant current of society, education, or culture rather than keeping them separate.
The term appears most often in educational contexts, where it refers to placing students with disabilities in regular classrooms alongside their peers: The district adopted a policy of mainstreaming students with learning differences.
More broadly, mainstreaming describes how once-marginal viewpoints or groups become accepted by the general population.
Ease of approach
- inclusionBeing made part
- integrationCombining into a whole
- assistive technologyDisability-compensating devices and software
- wheelchairSeated conveyance for mobility-impaired
hearing aids · screen reader · universal design · disability rights · neurodiversity · occupational therapy · accommodations · ramps
Being made part
- integrationCombining into a whole
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- pedagogyArt of instruction
- classroomEducational instruction space
IEP · learning disabilities · resource room · developmental delays · early intervention · peer support · lesson plans · teaching methods
Being made part
- integrationCombining into a whole
- acceptanceConsent to receive
- representationDepiction or likeness
- diversityState of varied elements
multiculturalism · pluralism · tolerance · coexistence · intersectionality · openness · belonging · participation
Legal family formation
- popularizationMaking widely known
- normalizationAdjusting to a standard
- mass-marketFor widespread commercial sale
- widespreadExisting across many places
ubiquity · prevalence · conventional · commonplace · assimilation · homogenization · commercialization · viral
Combining into a whole
- institutionalizationEstablishing as norm or standard
- implementationPutting plans into effect
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- mandatesAuthoritative commands or requirements
compliance · regulation · government policy · reform · standards · guidelines · directives · cross-cutting
accessibility
Ease of approach
- inclusionBeing made part
- integrationCombining into a whole
- assistive technologyDisability-compensating devices and software
wheelchair · hearing aids · screen reader · universal design · disability rights · neurodiversity · occupational therapy · accommodations · ramps · captioning
inclusion
Being made part
- integrationCombining into a whole
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- pedagogyArt of instruction
classroom · IEP · learning disabilities · resource room · developmental delays · early intervention · peer support · lesson plans · teaching methods · education policy
inclusion
Being made part
- integrationCombining into a whole
- acceptanceConsent to receive
- representationDepiction or likeness
diversity · multiculturalism · pluralism · tolerance · coexistence · intersectionality · openness · belonging · participation · deinstitutionalization
adoption
Legal family formation
- popularizationMaking widely known
- normalizationAdjusting to a standard
- mass-marketFor widespread commercial sale
widespread · ubiquity · prevalence · conventional · commonplace · assimilation · homogenization · commercialization · viral · trendsetting
integration
Combining into a whole
- institutionalizationEstablishing as norm or standard
- implementationPutting plans into effect
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
mandates · compliance · regulation · government policy · reform · standards · guidelines · directives · cross-cutting · organizational change
- Education ServicesIEP, teacher training, 504 plan, school improvement, accommodations
- disabilitydisability rights, disability culture, disability activism, disability services, disability identity
- Eduspeakpedagogy, curriculum mapping, scaffolding, rubric, formative
- social changecultural shift, social progress, social norms, cultural fusion, globalization
- special educationspecial education, special ed, special needs, IEP, IEPs
- Special Needsspecial education, special needs, special ed, disability rights, IEP
mainstreamingsegregation
Forced separation by group
segregating · exclusion · separation · institutionalization · separate facilities
mainstreamingmarginalization
Relegation to powerless periphery
othering · underground · counterculture · subculture · niche marketing
mainstreamingsegregation
Forced separation by group
institutionalization · siloing · compartmentalization · specialization · differentiation