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needs or abilities.
Inclusion is primarily about school
ethos and the kind of arrangements
which are required to put that ethos
into practice. The mainstream
school is restructured to meet the
needs of all its students.
Inclusive education refers to educational practice
based on the philosophical belief that all learners,
those with and without disabilities, have the right to be
educated together in age-appropriate class groups,
and that all will benefit from education in the regular
classrooms of community schools.
Within these settings, teachers, parents, and others
work collaboratively using appropriate and sufficient
resources to interpret and enact the regular
curriculum in flexible manner in accordance with
individual abilities and needs of all learners.
Gary Bunch, York University
When one student is not a full participant in his/her
school community, then we are all at risk
Marsha Forest
Inclusion Advocate & Founder of Marsha Forest Centre
Inclusive Education UNESCO
It is a universal goal to achieve Education for All
children (EFA) by the year 2015.
This goal will only be achieved when all nations
recognize that the universal right to education
extends to individuals with disabilities.
It is only when we question a prevailing paradigm that
we can be open to changing not only our beliefs, but
our actions.
Thomas Kuhn
sharing the notion in many terms