Training Teachers for Inclusive Education in Colombia: From Policy to Practice

A teacher for educational inclusion requires training to cater for difference and competences to identify and remove barriers in order to guarantee the right to education for their students. Thus, this chapter initially addresses the relationship between education, inclusion and teaching in order, in the second section, to show the main guidelines that Colombian regulations propose for social inclusion and teacher training for social inclusion through education. The third section presents three cases that illustrate innovative proposals for teacher training for educational inclusion and ends by analysing the main teaching competences for this purpose.