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The reason why inclusive education was accepted:
It is a human right.
It makes good educational sense.
It makes good social sense.
It promotes the right to learn and live together.
It promotes acceptance of diversity.
It builds respect for one another.
It supports a uniform and responsive education and training system.
It supports positive interaction and learning from one another.
It helps to build a rehabilitative and supportive society.
Inclusive education should pose the following challenges for teachers:
Support inclusion
Advocate and raise awareness
Embrace diversity
Change perceptions and attitudes
Address the needs of all learners
Accept people who are facing challenges
Accept people who are different
Stop discrimination
Definitions for Inclusion and Inclusive Education:
Inclusion in education involves the processes of increasing the
participation of learners in, and reducing their exclusion from the
cultures, curricula and communities of local schools.
Inclusion involves restructuring the cultures, policies and practices in
schools so that they respond to the diversity of learners in their local
community.
Inclusion is concerned with the learning and participation of all learners
vulnerable to exclusionary pressures.
Inclusion is concerned with improving schools for staff and learners.
All learners have the right to education in their local community.
, Inclusion is concerned with fostering mutually sustaining relationships
between schools and communities.
Inclusive education and training are implemented as follows:
Acknowledging that all children and youth can learn and need support.
Enabling education structures, systems and learning methodologies to
meet the needs of all learners.
Acknowledging and respecting differences in learners.
Broader than formal schooling and acknowledging that learning also
occurs in the home and community, and within formal and informal
settings and structures.
Changing attitudes, behaviour, teaching methods, curricula and
environment to meet the needs of all learners.
Maximising the participation of all learners in the culture and the
curriculum of educational institutions and uncovering and minimising
barriers to learning.
Transformation in the education system is vital for the following reasons:
Learners who experience barriers to learning, run the greatest risk of
being excluded from the education system.
70% of learners with disabilities are currently outside the formal
education system.
Access to the curriculum is often limited.
The Education White Paper emphasises the following:
Inclusive education promotes equal participation of and non-
discrimination against all learners in the learning process.
Key to the successful implementation of a South African inclusive
education and training model is the launch of a national advocacy and
information programme in support of the inclusion model.
The White Paper on Special Education arises out of the need for changes
to be made to the provision of education and training.
The policy framework outlined in the White Paper aims to accommodate
the full range of diverse learning needs within all bands of the education
and training system.
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