Inclusive Education – A Boon for Odl Students

  • R Sengamalam alias Vaanathi Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Directorate of Distance Education, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai
  • B Padma Assistant Professor & Head i/c, Department of Education, Directorate of Distance Education Madurai Kamaraj University, Madura

Abstract

Inclusion is not an experiment to be tested but a value to be followed. Inclusive education thus needs to be implemented with full rigour in order to fulfill the mandate of Education for all as guaranteed by the Fundamental Right to education. The principle of inclusive education was adopted at the “World Conference on Special Needs Education: Access and Quality” (Salamanca, Spain 1994) and was restated at the World Education Forum (Dakar, Senegal 2000). Against this backdrop of continuous neglect, there is an urgent need to find ways for de The Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode of education with several in-built flexibilities of place and pace of education has emerged as a potential alternative mode of education. Whereas education in formal schools gives opportunity of face to face interaction of teachers with students for sufficiently long duration every year, developing potential of this large proportion of challenged children. Inclusive education stands for improvement of schools in all dimensions to address the educational needs of all children. Inclusive education is at a very early stage of conceptualization and implementation in India. Inclusive education is a new approach towards educating the children with disability and learning difficulties with that of normal ones within the same roof. It seeks to address the learning needs of all children with a specific focus on those who are vulnerable to marginalization and exclusion.However, increasing use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) under ODL mode of education has enabled the learner to increase the duration of didactic interaction with Tutors. This paper dealt with role of inclusive education in successive implementation of Open and Distance Learning in this present scenario.

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2015-03-29
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Sengamalam alias Vaanathi, R., & Padma, B. (2015). Inclusive Education – A Boon for Odl Students. Shanlax International Journal of Education, 3(2), 33-38. Retrieved from https://shanlaxjournals.in/journals/index.php/education/article/view/2820
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