Inclusive Learning Spaces- Inclusive Class rooms

Aims of the tool

The aim of the research is to monitor, analyse and evaluate the impact of educational escape adventures in the process of creating inclusive learning environments in formal and non-formal education fields.

The research identifies which elements of escape adventures support the inclusion process and the learning process. Therefore this research contributes to the understanding of how these learning and inclusion processes work and how they can be optimised in the various educational fields.

Description of the tool

The research provides profound and wide analytical proof coming from formal and non- formal education fields from 4 different European countries on how escape adventures foster inclusion in classrooms and other learning environments. The target group of the research were educators from formal and non-formal education, researchers, local authorities, youth workers and young people.

The impact of the escape adventures has been analysed on how the popular leisure time activity-based on the escape rooms have been transformed into inclusive and educational escape adventures and used for educational purposes in different countries, simultaneously with the aim to create more inclusive and engaging classrooms and other learning spaces.

This research could be used as fundamental material on national and European level to promote innovative tools (escape adventures) to work on various inclusion topics and creative inclusive methodologies in formal and non-formal education. Besides that, it shows how formal and non-formal education institutions work together for a common aim.

Based on data gathering, the research process helped to identify weak points of escape adventures and improve them to create escape adventures that are inclusive
and fit the local context and needs.

The Inclusive Learning Spaces research outcomes have been summarized. The conclusions are captured in an infographic as a trigger to invite educators to read the detailed research.