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Good vision! The term inclusion indicate the action of inserting a new element into a group or a set.
It’s a word the includes many fields: from the disciplinary on, as it happens in math and biology, going through politics, to the common jargon.
(1) The term, used in a social sphere, feature different shades. In fact, it takes the meaning of being part of someting (as to a group of people) and feeling completely part, welcomed and accepted by the comunity.
(1) Besides, the term inclusion means the possibility of the environment wherein a person lives to adapt itself to each person, allowing everybody to partecipate actively and satisfactory.
(2) To be inclusive, contexts must fight againist those social exclusion phenomena concerning, for example, skin color, gender, culture, status, religion, or disability.
Discrimination can occur in various contexts: on the workplace, on the political context or on the social field.
To counter this phenomenon, inclusion aims to remove any type of discrimination that is created in a society, respecting the individual diversities.
Therefore this vision of diversity is proposed not as a weak point, but rather as a strong one, a capital that deserves to be enhanched.
(2) (3) Inclusion is often associated whit the term integration.
As a matter of fact, the two concepts are distinguished by their purpose: the second one proposes a compensatory approach; inclusion, on the other hand, aims to eliminate the visible and invisible barrieres of the environment, to make it accessible to all.
(4) Inclusion allows people to express themselves to the fullest of their abilities, increasing their confidence, self-esteem, and self-awarness.
(3) For example, Baskin is an inclusive sport; this word is a combination of two terms: basketball and inclusion. Baskin is played whit the same rules as basketball, with the integration of some small differences.
The most important difference is the composition of the teams: infact, both athletes with disability and athlestes without disability are part of the same team.
The court and the game dynamics are adapted to people with different characteristics, enhancing the abilities and disabilities of each player, making the context inclusive for all participants.
(5) In the last decades, in Italy, many initiatives have been taken to encourage inclusion and to increase the number of the structure where to pray. In addition, educational institutions have set up various initiatives to increase the inclusion of foreign students.
Since 2012, M. I. U. R. (the Italian Ministry of Education) has decreed that it is compulsory to prepare suitable intercultural approaches in teaching and its actual broader task is to educate to coexistence throught the enhancement of identity and cultural differences.
For this reason, in the school canteens children can choose alternative menu adapted to food religious needs.
(6) (7) (8) In a workplace, to be a woman has always been an element of disadvantage in terms of opportutities and salary.
The employment gaps between men and women affect the salaries and the engagement choices or the career progression.
The European Commission, has passed some advice to encourage inclusion and gender equality in workplaces.
This must happen throught action such as wage trasparency in a business company where gender-based discrimination could occur.
Besides, this must happen by opposing precarious employment and bringing out the high level of women’s undeclared work; promoting women being part of administrative boards.
And all this in order to promote the equality between man and women at all levels of the decision-making process in the workplace.
(9) Bibliographic reference here below.
Studentesse
Erizzo Yara, Rorato Giada, Zorzetto Rose, 2021.