Understanding Inclusive Education

1. South African context
Inclusive education

2. What does
Inclusive
Education
mean?
 Inclusive education implies all young
learners, young people-with or without
disabilities being able to learn together
through access to common pre-schools and
schools with an appropriate network of
support services.
 Inclusive education is defined as a learning
environment that promotes the full personal,
academic and professional development of all
learners irrespective of race, class, colour,
gender, disability, sexual preference, learning
styles and language.
 Inclusive education is providing education to
specially abled students along with normal
students and by providing facilities and
normal atmosphere as given to the normal
students without discrmininating.

3. Inclusion in Education Involves:
•Valuing all students and staff equallyValuing
•Increasing the participation of students in, and reducing their exclusion from the
cultures, curricula, and communities of local schools
Increasing
•Restructuring the cultures, the policies and cultures in schools so that they respond
to the diversity of students in the locality
Restructuring
•Reducing the barriers to learning and participation, not only those with
impairments or those who are categorized as “having special educational needs”
Reducing

4. Principles
of Inclusive
education
 No discrimination with students
 Equal educational opportunity to all
 School adapt to the need of student
 Equal educational benefits for all
students
 The student’s views are listened to and
taken seriously
 Individual differences between students
are a source of richness and diversity,
and not a problem

5. Aims and objectives
of inclusive
education
 Education for all
 Protection of rights
 Identification of skills
 Development of social
consciousness
 To prepare for new challenges
 Development of brotherhood
 To improve quality of education
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6. Advantages of
Inclusive
Education
 Both the "normal" children and the
disabled children can learn from
each other, thus teaching
acceptance of one other.
 Help the disabled children develop
socially.
 Everyone is granted an equal
education.
 Prepare the disabled children for a
future that they might otherwise
not have.
 It help the disabled child to
develop a sense of pride in their
work because they actually fill like
they accomplished something
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7. Disadvantages of
Inclusive
Education
 The disabled children can be
disruptive.
 They have problem with
bullying.
 The teacher tends to be
impatient towards the disabled
child or simply don't want to be
bothered with these students.
 The teacher might talk over the
disabled child's head thus
leaving the child bored.
 The teacher has to slow down
to teach the disabled child thus
creating boredom among the
other students
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8. Practicing Inclusive Education
Inclusive
Education
Child remains as
natural self
Equal
opportunities for
participation
Teacher effective
in including all
children in
learning process
Child centered
,their rights are
realized and
actualized

9. Scope of Inclusive
Education
Children in remote
tribal areas
Children with
disabilities
Children living
with HIV/AIDS and
other chronic
illness
Children of
migrant labourers
Girls living in
difficult
circumstances
All other children

10. Reference list
 Araya. C(2011). Inclusive Education.
https://www.slideshare.net/carlosarayas/inclusive-education-ppp
 Arnilla. AK(2019). Diversity and Inclusive Education.
https://www.slideshare.net/kim2009/diversity-and-inclusive-education
 Meenuch. (2015). Inclusive Education.
https://www.slideshare.net/meenuch/inclusive-education-51970417
 Noushad. N(2017).Children with special needs: Inclusive Education special
education and intergrated education. Sahib Training College.
https://www.slideshare.net/Naseeranoushad/children-with-special-needs-
71453706
 Raj. MM(2014). Inclusive education and right to education in India.
https://www.slideshare.net/maheshrajmadhu/inclusive-education-right-to-
education-in-india

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