Inclusive Education Barriers

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Introduction

According to UN convention (1989 and 1996) on the rights of a child article 29, a right to education is a basic human right. Therefore, inclusive education aims to maximise access to education, participation and success for all learners. Inclusion here does not focus on specific learners like girl children or individuals with disabilities or with special needs only, but for all children. UNESCO (2008) caution that such limited conception may create confusion between inclusive education and integration.

Be it those who have been excluded from the education systems. Access goes beyond admissions to schools; it includes participations and involvement in pedagogical content, process and product. Inclusive education is achievable if it addresses exclusionary practices such as non-admissions of learners on the basis of their nature and severity …show more content…

It is imperative that the education and training system must change to accommodate the full range of learning needs, with particular attention to strategies for instructional and curriculum transformation.

One of the most important barriers to learning is the school curriculum. Which could arise from the different aspects of the curriculum such as the content, the language, classroom organisation, teaching methodologies, pace of teaching and time available to complete the curriculum, teaching and learning support materials and assessment (Department of Education, 2001, p.19). In responding to the diversity of learners needs in the classroom. All schools are required to offer the same curriculum to learners while simultaneously ensuring variations in mode of delivery and assessment processes to accommodate all

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