Challenges to Inclusive Education

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6680600915509860220" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6680600915509860220" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: large;">The presentation on inclusion and subsequent group discussions identified the following major challenges in achieving inclusion: </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLeHId0dJ239f3rmmchjOv6RYg0qxjJp3D0EQhOQpntbQw7M-EabVgdn-V8IcRVXw2U9g5krQkDjP7y0OeFpfFNpVzcNPUMLyaaTXX2VXzUKL3py4qTY3X8t_REt3pp9goFSxi3VYuCGT9/s1600/CHALLENGES.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLeHId0dJ239f3rmmchjOv6RYg0qxjJp3D0EQhOQpntbQw7M-EabVgdn-V8IcRVXw2U9g5krQkDjP7y0OeFpfFNpVzcNPUMLyaaTXX2VXzUKL3py4qTY3X8t_REt3pp9goFSxi3VYuCGT9/s1600/CHALLENGES.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">• Ambiguities in defining what inclusion actually means. Is it learners with special needs, or from disadvantaged backgrounds or a diverse group of learners? </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">• In the absence of an inclusion models, special schools continue to exist. Special Education exists as an important component of Inclusive Education for preserving the comfort and stability of the mainstream education system. They are harnessed to enable the school to go on with its routine and “main” activity but the status quo is maintained and mainstream schools continue exclusion. </span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">• Resistance to inclusion is still prevalent as inclusion is considered to be dictate from the top and not acceptable to teachers. </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">• Conflict between inclusion agenda and (standard) agenda: Content heavy curriculum and evaluating progress based on marks and grades leads to tension between curriculum load and inclusive teaching. </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">• Schools across countries still do not have the capacities to provide for students with a wide range of diversities (without comprising). </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">• Structures in schools are not adapted to encourage team work and specific interventions. Inclusion demands a cultural transformation of schools. </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">• Training of teachers and pooling of resources still inadequate. </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">• Application of Universal Design to school buildings is not a reality. </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">• Linkages between community, teacher - teacher, peers, teacher - parents etc. are weak.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div>

Challenges to Inclusive Education

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