Roles of Robotics to Inclusive Education

Educational robotics (ER) is entering schools and gradually generating a positive attitude in the students because of active methodologies accompanied by recreational as well as functional activities and dynamic practices. Welcoming the entire population in its diversity is the objective of the public and private organizations that assist in the education of the population. This study makes an analysis of the research made the recent years related to robotics and educational inclusion, following the heuristic and hermeneutic methodology, to establish some basis to make an approximation of the contributions that robotics can offer to educational inclusion. The results show a growing use of ER as a learning tool that arouses interest and enriches the training, creativity, social, and communicative skills. As a conclusion of this study, robotics strengthens two essential components in meaningful learning, by one side, the emotional profile, which encouraging the student to set goals, and by the other hand, the cognitive one, which carries the acquisition of competencies for an eventual and inclusive professional life.