Growth Of Inclusive Education In India And Its Relevance In Contemporary Period

Abstract

As the development of any country is being depicted by its education system so inclusive education is one of the steps to achieve the same. Both nationally and internationally, inclusion of disabled students including children with minority race, women and children from rural areas, in the general educational classrooms along with their non-disabled peers is considered as a serious issue by the educational community. In order to face this issue there is a need to aware the people about the benefits and productive outcomes of inclusion. Inclusive means that all children irrespective of their strengths and weaknesses in any aspect should be the part of the school. Various research studies have been conducted which depicts that disabled students showed improvement in social and academic fields in the inclusive environment. Need of inclusive education is felt because disabled students develop positive attitude towards their non-disabled peers, each one having unique characteristics, interests, attitudes in an inclusive environment. Inclusive education also faces various challenges which are regarded as traditional and outdated but created a serious hindrance for making this program successful. Thus the present paper focuses on the concept of inclusive education, its need to keep our country at par with the developed countries and its various challenges.