Inclusion & Equity:

Learning For All

NEP 2020

SMRITI SWARUP
drsmritiswarup@gmail.com
 Children Who Learn Together Learn To Live Together

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 EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Means
All for Learners For All Learners

If the mission is
Education for all

The goal is
To include all

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 NEP Emphasizes:
 Every citizen has the opportunity to
dream, thrive and contribute to the Nation
EQUITABLE AND
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION:  Based on:
LEARNING FOR ALL Human Rights Approach
 Aims at:
NEP 2020 Creating an inclusive culture
Achieving an inclusive society

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 GAP VERTICALS
Learning
Access Participation
Outcomes
• Participation •Discrepant
•Physical of SEDGs in expected and
access schooling acceptable
process learning
•Infrastructural outcomes
access

•Learning
access

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 BRIDGING THE GAP
• L Learning
• Access Outcomes
• Participation
• Removal of : • Based on:
• individual capacities,
• Infrastructural • Make learning
needs and learning
barriers meaningful,
preferences
• Attitudinal • relevant,
• Using :
barriers • age and level
• Differentiated
• Learning barriers appropriate
instruction and
• Building school assessment
communities, • Adopting • Competency based
developing Universal Design continuous
school clusters of Learning assessment
for better
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 6 ES OF
INCLUSIVE
EDUCATION

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 5 Rs of
Inclusion

Reach
Right
Responsibility
Relationship
Respect

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Diversity in terms of :

ADDRESSING DIVERSE
NEEDS OF LEARNERS  Physical Needs
 Academic Needs
 Psycho-social Needs

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 PEDAGOGICAL CONCERNS

 Differentiation in curricular planning and instruction

 Curriculum adaptation
 Experiential learning
 Flexible child -centered teaching- learning strategies
 Competency based learning outcomes & assessment
 Continuous Assessment ‘AS’, ‘For’ and ‘Of” learning.

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  All mainstream schools to become capable of
educating all children in their local
communities
 Barrier free access of education for all children
across the stages
CHALLENGES AND  Address diverse needs of learners in all school
activities including Art, Sports and Vocational
OPPORTUNITIES training
 Provide quality education to all learners
through assistive devices, technology- based
tools, appropriate teaching – learning
materials.
 Eliminate social exclusion that is a
consequence of attitudes and responses to
diversity in race, social class, ethnicity,
language, gender and ability
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CONTD…
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

 Develop teacher competencies and skills

 Develop evidence- based practices that “measure what we value”
rather than “valuing what we can measure”
 Create a system of teaching and learning that is competency based
instead of content based
 Create an educational culture of collaboration that encourages and
supports problem solving
 Establish school clusters to develop consensus around inclusive values
within school communities
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CONTD…
CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES
 Provide inclusive curriculum that is value oriented and responsive to
cultural and linguistic diversity

 Create learning environment that embraces diversity- a positive

environment that responds to the needs of learners beyond academics

 Create Inclusive school culture with the support of trained inclusive

teachers, social workers and counsellors

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 TO ACHIEVE INCLUSION & EQUITY

We need to:

 work together

 collaborate with each other

 tolerate others

because –

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“None of us is as smart as all of us.” 8/26/2020
Johnson & Johnson
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