Inclusive Education

Abstract

The demand for inclusive education has increased and fostered major changes to schooling and education, where learners with disabilities are taught alongside their peers within the local community. For this reason, schools are required to adapt fast to accommodate and support a diverse group of learners with a variety of needs drawing from both the Eurocentric and African perspectives. As inequality and exclusion are produced systematically, they can be tackled head on. Drawing from the critical disability theory, this chapter shows that although learners can be different, they all need to be provided with access and equal opportunities in schools. Accommodating learners with diverse backgrounds and disabilities; and working together to build a common future, is a core value of an inclusive society. When social inclusion is promoted, cycles of exclusion and traditional blockades (structural and perceived), begin to dismantle.