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A 5 page paper which considers the pros and cons of inclusion in education and concludes that inclusive policies benefit both learning-disabled and mainstream students. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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(2007), "inclusive education is a developmental approach to the learning needs of all children, youth and adults, especially those who are vulnerable to marginalization and exclusion" (UNESCO, 2007). However, although
it is widely accepted that all students have the right to the same standard of education, whether they are disabled or not, there have been some problems with applying principles
of inclusion to traditional pedagogies: inclusion has often been seen as implying that "students must adapt to the norms, styles, routines and practices of the education system" (IBE-UNESCO, 2007) whilst
the reverse is in fact the case. Inclusion needs a "vast repertoire of different learning strategies" (IBE-UNESCO, 2007) to accommodate the very diverse requirements of students: that is, the system
has to adapt to individuals, rather than vice versa. UNESCO also makes the salient point that exclusion does not necessarily mean exclusion
from the education system as a whole: students can be excluded within the system itself, if their educational and developmental needs are not met. In addition, exclusion may be promoted
as having positive value for the students themselves. Chatterjee (2003), in reference to inclusive education in India, notes that even when inclusion is regarded as part of official policy there
are still significant numbers of children who are excluded because of disability; he states that this is partly due to the idea that children with disabilities will gain greater benefit
from special schools than from the mainstream system. Consequently, the children themselves suffer from marginalization, and at the same time the public is led to believe that children with disabilities
should be kept out of mainstream society, since they cannot make any valuable contribution to it. It might be assumed that more developed
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