The document discusses the concepts of mainstream education, special education, integrated education, and inclusive education. It defines each concept and compares the differences between integrated education and inclusive education. Integrated education aims to educate some special needs children alongside regular students with some support, while inclusive education aims to educate all children who have been excluded from education by providing special infrastructure, curriculum, and trained staff to meet their diverse needs. The key difference is that inclusive education has a broader scope of including all excluded students, while integrated education may have its own criteria for which students to include.

1. PSYCHOLOGY OF
DEVELOPEMENT AND LEARNING
CONCEPT OF INTEGRATED AND
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION.
By – Amruta V. Apte.

2. TOPICS TO COVER
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Mainstream Education--Concept.
Special Education—Meaning, Concept, Need.
Integrated Education--Concept.
Inclusive Education—Concept
Difference in Inclusive and Integrated
Education.

3. Mainstream Education
• A Mainstream School is any school that principally
meets the needs of pupils who do not have special
educational needs. They are regular schools.

4. Main stream school.

5. Special Education:
• Meaning:
Primitive Era meaning:
Special education meaned categorised education for
Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras etc.
Modern meaning:
• Education for Special need children.
• Specifically designed instruction that meets the
unusual needs of special children.
• The term special education includes all aspects of
education which are applied to all exceptional
children– Physically and mentally disadvantaged and
gifted.

6. SPECIAL EDUCATION
• For special education, some special infrastructure is
needed.
• Also it can be included in mainstream education with
some special facilities for it.
• Special education requires following three elements:
1. Trained professionals including teachers,
educationists, physiotherapists.
2. Special curriculum made for students with different
disabilities.
3. Infrastructure facilities like building features, study
places, material and equipments.

7. Need of Special education:
• To fulfil needs of exceptional children for
education.
• To help exceptional children for self
sufficiency, occupation etc.
• To help them for better life.
• To cater their daily needs.
• They need to be educated in order to get
acquainted with surrounding happenings.
• What is need of special education according to
you?

8. Mainstreaming of education:
• Mainstreaming of education:
Meaning: Mainstreaming, in the context of
education is the practice of educating
students with special needs in regular classes
during specific time periods based on their
skills. This means regular education classes are
combined with special education classes.

9. Mainstreaming of special education:
• Mainstreaming does not involve putting a child
full-time in a special school.
• Mainstreaming does not involve placing a child
full-time in a regular classroom. A student who
spends the entire day in a regular classroom with
non-disabled peers is considered fully included.
Most students with mild levels of disabilities such
as dyslexia or attention deficit disorder, or with
non-cognitive disabilities such as diabetes are
fully included.
• Mainstreaming does not involve teaching the
child outside of school.

10. TYPES OF MAINSTREAMING OF EDUCATION
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Mainstreaming can be done in three ways.
Integrated Education.
Inclusive Education.
Exclusive Education.
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Exclusive education is exclusion of all the
students who are not able to fit in the
curriculum or in school settings for any reason.
Not aim of including all students so very narrow
concept.

11. Integrated Education
• Definition
• Integrated Education is the educational programme in
which exceptional children attend classes with normal
children on either a part or full time basis.
• It is placement of the disabled children in ordinary
schools with some specialised educational help and
services.
• It does not necessarily integrate all the students who are
away from the education for any reason like physically,
mentally, socially deprived or because of any cast, creed,
gender, race, ability, disability, life style etc.

12. Integrated Education
• Concept
• The concept of integrated education arises as outcome of
National policy of education, 1986 recommended to
provide equal opportunity to all not only for access but
also for success.
• Integration signifies the process of interaction of disabled
children with normal children in the same educational
setting.
• Integration also means ‘mainstreaming’ or
‘Normalisation’. As disabled children are treated with
normal children.

13. Integrated Education
• Importance
• It does not create a feeling of differentiation among
disabled children.
• It helps to remove inferiority complex among
disabled children.
• It provides peer group help in learning from normal
children.
• It provides disabled children a chance to enjoy school
life with normal children.
• It ensures social integration.

14. Integrated Education
• Importance
• It inculcates affection, love and respect for
disabled children among normal children.
• It is less expensive as special infrastructure is
not required. Special learning material and
specially trained teachers are not appointed.
• Disabled or challenged students may get help from
peers for learning and get motivated for learning.

15. INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
• Definition:
• Inclusive education can be defined as the process
of increasing the participation of students in the
cultures, curricula, and communities of local
mainstream schools.
• Concept:
• It includes all the students who are away from
the education for any reasons like physically or
mentally challenged, economically, socially,
deprived or belonging to any caste creed, gender
etc.

16. INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
• It is more broader and wider concept than integrated
education as it includes all the students in mainstream
education.
• For inclusive education special planning can be done in
mainstream education like special infrastructure, specially
designed classes, special curriculum.
• Children with some special need can be made to sit in
different classes or same classes with catering their needs.
• Ex- Hearing impaired children can be provided with audio aids
for hearing.
Visually impaired children can be provided with books in
Braille.

17. Teaching aids for visually impaired children.

18. Teaching aids for hearing impaired children.

19. Special arrangement and provision of
ramps for physically handicapped children.

20. Benefits of inclusive education.
• All the children away from education will be
benefitted from education.
• Disabled or challenged students may get a support
and help from normal students.
• All the students excluded from school because of
some reason may get a chance to enjoy school life
with normal students.
• Disabled or challenged students get motivated for
learning.
• They may get a confidence and can learn to face
problems, and challenges because of peer help.

21. Disadvatages of inclusive education.
• Disabled or challenged students may not get proper
help from teachers and peers which may lower down
their moral.
• They may face any other problems because of
inadequate facilities and teaching aids required to
meet their needs.
• They may get inferiority complex in them because of
some disability.
• Gifted children may get feeling of ignorance.
• Can you suggest any other disadvantages?

22. Difficulties in inclusive education:
• Characteristics of individual pupils should match to
facilitate participation in schooling.
• Curriculum limitations.
• No tested methods and techniques and teaching aids
available to cater their needs.
• Teachers or trained staff must be enthusiastic to
promote greater participation of challenged
students.
• Formal planning.
• Response of parents and students.

23. Difference between Integrated and Inclusive
education
Integrated education
Inclusive education
• Main aim is not integrating all
the children who are away
from education. So not very
broad concept.
• Children with some disability
are integrated in normal school
only.
• No formal planning is
required.
• No special infrastructure,
trained staff, special curriculum
is required.
• All the students away from
education are not necessarily
included in mainstream
schools.
• Main aim is including all the
children who are away from
education. So broader concept.
• Children with some disability
are included in normal schools
but with some special facilities
for them.
• Formal planning is required.
• Special infrastructure, trained
staff, and special curriculum is
designed for them.
Ex- Ramps for physically
handicapped children. Specially
designed classes.
• All the students away from
education are included in the
mainstream schools.

24. Difference between Integrated and Inclusive
education
Integrated education
• Can have their own criteria
of integrating students with
some disability or ability.
• Not very expensive as
inclusive education.
• Regular curriculum is also
followed by challenged
students with generally
same school timing.
• Challenged or gifted
students in any way are
occupied in same normal
classrooms.
Inclusive education
• Do not have their own criteria of
including students as main aim is to
include all the students who are
excluded from education.
• Can be more expensive as special
planning is done for infrastructure,
curriculum and trained staff is
appointed.
• Special curriculum is designed and
followed for challenged students
with may be less school timing or
according to need.
• Special classrooms are designed or
students are given special seating
arrangement according to their
need.

25. Home Assignment.
• Visit any school near to you which is
mainstreaming special education as inclusive
education and find out special facilities or
arrangements for children with special needs.
• Find out the difference in integrated and
inclusive education.
• Write a report on that.