Inclusion in Schools: Perspectives and Possibilities
Contents: Foreword: Prof Namita Ranganathan. Preface. Unit I: Evolving Perspectives of Inclusive Pedagogy. 1. Inclusive Education and NEP 2020/Yukti Sharma. 2. A Discourse on Teaching Strategies for Inclusive Classroom/Ajit Mondal. 3. Pedagogy for Diversity: A Pursuit of Inclusivity/Gowramma. 4. Looking into Language Classrooms: From the Lens of Inclusion/Lata. Unit II: Inclusion within the School Environment. 5. Taking Science to All: Pedagogic Considerations for Preparing Inclusive Science Teachers/Md. Jawaid Hussain. 6. Children with Special Needs (CWSN) in Regular Schools: Glorious Mess or a Social Good/Quazi Ferdoushi Islam, Aejaz Masish and Najma Amin. 7. Inclusion: Micro Changes for Macro Transformations in Education/Supriya Singh. 8. Touch-Vision: Multisensory Inclusive Education Platform for Children/Ankita Gulati and M. Balakrishnan. 9. Use of Inclusive Teaching Strategies/Shalini Yadava and Sunita Kathuria. 10. Resources for Inclusive Science Classroom/Bharti and Pooja Tomar. Unit III: Emerging Perspectives of Inclusion. 11. Inclusion: Meaning for an Ethnic Group/Deepankar Sharma. 12. Scattered Perspectives of Inclusion/Usama Mehmood. 13. Inclusive Education and Dalit/Praveen Kumar. 14. Inclusion and the Resource Question/Sukanya Bose, Priyanta Ghosh and Arvind Sardana. Index.
With the Human Rights perspective the idea of inclusion got impetus in the Indian education, particularly in schools. And with the emergence of the Rights Discourse stemming from the Right to Education Act and the Persons with Disabilities Act the need for inclusion has moved far beyond schools to society being the focal area. This is reflected in the ideational transition from inclusive education to social inclusion. The volume, containing contributions from various experts from different universities and organisations, focuses on this spirit and discusses strategies, experiments and practical aspects to actually do and ensure inclusion in schools.
The book answers several unanswered questions through research-based rationale. It is offered as a guiding book for creating inclusive schools where you are also urged to pave your own ideas in the welfare of your students. It may be very enriching for all students, scholars and teachers in the field of Education.
