Inclusion is defined as Inclusion is cost-effective

Inclusion is related to
process wherein learner's
diverse needs will be
addressed by enhancing
engagement in learning,
cultures and communities
while eliminating exclusion
from and within education
and because it is a never-
ending quest to find on how
to live people with
disability.
because it contributes to the
quality. Having inclusive
approach in a classroom creation of learning-
friendly environments that
will promote quality
result in increased fairness
education that will lead
and improved educational
to full participation of results. Not only do people
the learners and will with disabilities benefit
eliminate and overcome from inclusion, but so do
different barriers such as people with different range
discrimination. of resources.

CONCEPTS

I N C L U S I O N
KEY ELEMENTS

ATTITUDE AND INCLUSION

KEY
PLAYERS
The key players are
parents, teachers and
communities and are
responsible for
promoting diversity.
VALUES AFFECTING
INCLUSION
Attitudes and values
greatly affect inclusion
especially when the
attitude is negative. In
order for inclusion to
work, both key players
and learners must have
common interest and
shared values.
ACCESSIBLE AND
EMPOWERS ALL
FLEXIBLE CURRICULA
Everyone benefits from
Many curricula assume that all
students will learn the same inclusion. It allows people to
topics at the same time and develop social networks,
using the same ways. However, reciprocity norms, mutual
each student is unique, with
unique abilities and needs. To
help, and trustworthiness.
On various levels, the
guarantee that all students
benefits of inclusion over
receive an education, the
curriculum must take into special education have been
account their diverse needs. established.

One example is an Example: Students

Example: In Durban,
South Africa,
grandmothers are
being used by teachers
to develop reading
abilities of the
children.
Example: allowing
inclusive schooling students to study with impairments
in Burkina wherein perform better in
certain courses for
a project made longer periods of time inclusive
environments,
parents and and giving teachers
according to studies
students become more flexibility in
in both OECD and
aware and observed how they work.
non-OECD nations.
changes.

INSIGHTS
Being disabled does not imply you have no life; in fact, some of the so-called
disabled can paint, play basketball, and even eat meals, demonstrating that they
can still accomplish what able-bodied people can do. They just believe they are
incapacitated because society has conditioned them to believe so.

Inclusion Concept Map