The benefits of music in inclusive education

Today in the world are applied all kinds of strategies for overcoming the segregation forms of upbringing and education of children and youth with special educational needs. This helps this population not to remain on the margins of the society, and to prevent their alienation and stigmatization. By strengthening of the school capacities with permanent training and supervision support, these processes have been directed toward the development of several dimensions, among which is inclusiveness. The inclusiveness is a sum of procedures, strategies, methods, and ideas, i.e., a movement which is already a well-established practice today. It is one of the subjects in the educational system which contributes to greater socialization, development of personality and creativity especially among children with specific needs in music education. This aesthetic education through music pervades, supports and encourages the development of intellectual, moral, physical and working components of overall upbringing and education. The purpose of this paper is to present part of strategies that are applied in the inclusive classes on the subject of musical education. Most of them refer to the school methodical-didactic principles implying a special program, a special pace and special forms of work which in the optimal extent are individualized. Sharing of these various findings in the field of music can encourage rising of the level of awareness about equal rights for all children, which represents one of the basic ideas in the modern education system. Keywords: strategies in education, music subject, inclusive classes