Which of the following are barriers in the way of Education to be inclusive? a) Parents do not send children with special needs to schools b) Non-availability of suitably trained teachers c) Children with special needs get legal protection d) Scarce financial provision from the government Select correct answer from the options given below.

Which of the following are barriers in the way of Education to be inclusive? a) Parents do not send children with special needs to schools b) Non-availability of suitably trained teachers c) Children with special needs get legal protection d) Scarce financial provision from the government Select correct answer from the options given below. Correct Answer (a), (b), (d)

The term ‘inclusive education’ is a step ahead of integrated education in that, it goes beyond children with disabilities and refers to an education system that accommodates all children regardless of their physical, intellectual, social, emotional, linguistic, or other conditions.

Key Points

Barriers in the way of Education to be inclusive:

1) Diversity among the learners 

  • There is so much diversity among a group of children belonging to the same age group.
  • Children differ with regard to their home background, motivation, and ability to learn, personal attributes contributing to success in academics attitudes, interests, and commitments.
  • This wide variety to be addressed as a group for instruction is a difficult task. 

2) Lack of infrastructure facilities

  • Most schools in our country are devoid of basic infrastructure facilities suitable for learning like The location away from the noise, rooms with no proper ventilation, less space for free movement inside and outside of the classroom, grounds to play, and lack of ramps, etc are posing barriers in inclusive education

3) Parental assistance

  • Many parents are worried that by labeling their child with a special need, their child will be stigmatized.
  • They are concerned that identifying a special need may pose a risk to the child, such as excluding the child from normal programs and activities for children at that age.

4) Non-availability of suitably trained teachers

  • The teachers in the regular schools are not trained to include such children and therefore, they tend to inform the parents to refer the child for special supports.
  • In some places, the regular schools have trained teachers who understand disabilities and the rejection rate is relatively less. But such schools are predominantly private schools. 

5) Scarce financial provision from the government

  • Another barrier in education to be inclusive is the scarcity of financial assistance and provision from the government.
  • The government is lagging behind in providing financial assistance to inclusive schools and in results the regular school unable to introduce the concept of inclusion in school. 
  • The school requires assistance in the finance in availing the different types of equipment, resources needed for inclusion.

Hence, it could be concluded that statement (a), (b), (d) is correct in the context of the question.

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Answer the question after reading the following passage: The traditional! approach to parenthood is completely unsatisfactory. Women have to spend many hours in child-rearing. Those with professional skills may sacrifice their career in all respects for the benefit of only one child. Because women spend time caring for their children, the services cf many expensively trained teachers, nurses, doctors and other professionals are altogether lost to society. Even if child-rearing is shared by the father, it simply means that two people waste time on an unproductive task for which they may be entirely ill-equipped. Society would be much better served if parenthood was made the responsibility of well-trained professional parents who would lock after groups of children as a paid occupation. This would end amateur childrearing and allow the biological parents to fully develop their careers for the benefit of society. Critics may argue that children rested in this would feel rejected, at least to some extent, by their natural parents. This is quite untrue. Evidence from societies where collective childrearing is practised shows that children merely experience minor upsets and are hardly affected by the separation. What is the function of expressions like ‘completely, in all respects, altogether, simply, entirety, Much, at least to some extent, quite, merely and hardly" in the passage?