Inclusive Education : Its Evolutionary Growth
Contents: Preface. 1. Inclusive education: the concept and nature. 2. Different models of disabilities. 3. Inclusive education according to NCF (2005). 4. Inclusive education in policies and programmes. 5. Developing innovative teaching strategies for promoting inclusive education among teachers and teacher educators. 6. Human rights education: the legal perspective. 7. Empowerment of women. 8. Children’s rights: promises and performance. 9. Abuses of children’s rights: sexual exploitation and child labour. 10. Educational placement of disabilities. 11. Children with various types of social needs and special education in historical perspectives. 12. Resource teacher, resource room, aids and equipments. 13. Mainstreaming: concept components and efficacy: issues in integration. 14. The sensorially handicapped children: the visually and hearing impaired. 15. Mentally retarded children. 16. Learning disabled children. 17. Emotionally disturbed children. 18. Education of the disadvantaged. 19. Special education for the disabled. 20. Effective educational practices for young children with disabilities. 21. Cooperative learning in classrooms. 22. Educating students with disabilities: future of special education. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.
Inclusive education is a kind of innovative system of education for children with different kinds of disabilities. A lot of experiments have taken place and with the new findings of these experiments, the old systems have been modified. The NPE (1986) and its revised form with Program of Action (1992) has rightly emphasized the integration of children with disability with other groups for enabling them to socialize and develop courage and confidence in them.
This process of education has been now in practice and is being discussed in various fora at the regional and national levels. Some documents have also been developed. The NCERT has discussed not only the theoretical importance and needs of inclusive education but also suggested innovative measures for making it a success.
