Inclusive Education In Mainstream Schools

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However, despite the current broad definition of inclusive education reflected in the UN documents and notwithstanding the concerns expressed by Miles and Singal, (op cit), much of the current literature on inclusive education still focuses on promoting inclusive education for children with special needs and disabilities. The United Kingdom and Indian Government’s documents on inclusive education (see for example Department for Education, 2011; Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 2015) refer to inclusive education solely in relation to increasing opportunities for children with special needs and disabilities to attend mainstream schools. There are also a number of pressure groups, for example Inclusion Europe (http://inclusion-europe.org/) and the Indian Inclusion Summit (http://indiainclusionsummit.com/) that exclusively campaign for increased opportunities for inclusive education for people with disabilities. Newspaper articles (see for example Balasubramanian, 2012) in The Hindu take a similar view as does a recent conference paper (Singh & Agarwal 2015) although this places the issue of children with disabilities within the wider context of promoting the goal of Education for All. Norwich (op cit) also comments that the vast majority of research literature on inclusive education is still predominately focused on children with special educational …show more content…

Rather than propose yet another definition, in this paper I suggest that a helpful way forward is to conceptualize inclusive education for children with special needs and disabilities around the following pupil outcomes: Presence, Acceptance, Participation and

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