A Career as a Participatory Teacher in Hungarian Higher Education

BackgroundUnder the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, disabled people have the right to participate in all decisions that affect their lives, be they in any segment of legislation, policy or practice. The academic world is no exception.MethodsThe authors are members of an inclusive academic team, including a colleague with intellectual disabilities. In this paper, we describe how our team works together and how we adapt our participatory teaching method to other helping professions.FindingsIn addition to the use of participatory teaching in special needs education training, it is possible to adapt the method in the training of mainstream teachers and pastoral students.ConclusionsThe 'We teach together! Participatory higher education method' is a way to make the training in helping professions more inclusive. This should, in time, create more inclusive spaces where professionals and people with intellectual disabilities co-exist.