Article Title :
Inclusive School Education

Author Name :
Prof. Lalit Kumar

Keyword :
Exclusion, Inclusive School Education, Challenged, Deprived, Marginalized

Publisher :
Politic India Publication

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Abstract :
Inclusive education is a concept that focuses the participation of all students. It has educational concern of all, including challenged, deprived and marginalized. Proper education of Disabled, SC, ST, Girls and Other Weaker Sections of the society is the real purpose of inclusive education. For the success and development of any society, nation& the mankind Inclusive Democracy & Inclusive Society is essential, which cannot be thought without Inclusive School Education. Despite governments policy, planning and programmers Exclusion is equally vibrant in school education. It can be checked only if besides Formal system of education, Non-formal and Informal also operate significantly. Lack of education is itself the vital cause of Exclusion in school education. As wards of upper layer of the community are not associated with the community schools, they do not contribute the schools as per their strength to manage Inclusion in school education. Policy and Planning do favour selective discrimination in favour of the marginalized, but the implementation is not as per the plan. India still has a large number of first generation learners. The Panchayti Raj Institution is also not working due to lack of education among the members of the community. Uneducated weaker sections of the society are not enjoying the benefit provided to them by the government. Plans, programmers and institutions like Right to Education, Mid-Day-Meal, SSA, UNICEF, UNESCO, World Bank, European Commission, Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya, Village Education Committee, Operation Black Board, Open Schooling, etc. have not done much due to non-education & Exclusion from school education of a large section of the society. Inclusive School Education has wider impact on the development of an individual, a society, a nation and the mankind. Without inclusive education, we cannot attain peak of any type of development-Economic, Political, Social, Cultural, Emotional, Environmental, Intellectual. The well to do & educated individuals, the community, the NGOs, the state governments, the central government along with proper planning& policy and due implementation of various schemes together, can manage inclusive school education for the healthy mankind and balanced society. Creation of an inclusive set-up in the school education, establishment of more and more inclusive schools instead of special schools, education of the adult mass of the deprived sections of the society, removal of poverty through economic reforms, checking of corruption, minimization of the impact of feudalism, flexible and comprehensive student evaluation, judicious evaluation of government policies, plan & actions, population control, development of suitably qualified and appropriately trained human resources, provisions of reward and punishment for honest and dishonest personals, selection of appropriate philosophy of education for planning and implementation, proper implementation of different plans, schemes, ideas, recommendations, etc., proper and optimum governmental support to school education, strengthening of panchayatiraj institution, involvement of community, quality research in school education, management of attitudinal changes among mass, controlling of excess bureaucratic interferences, proper use of mass media & multimedia, etc. are some of the measures that can manage the exclusion in school education to shape a sound inclusive system of school education.