scholarly journals A STUDY OF POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES OF DISABLED CHILDREN IN INDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (65) ◽  
pp. 14869-14874
Author(s):  
Poonam Rani

The Constitution of India (1950), Article 41, states the ‘Right to Education and Work’ and Article 45 on ‘Free Compulsory Education for All Children up to the Age of 14 Years’, both Articles are inclusive of children with mental retardation. The Education Commission, 1964-66 directed to move education for persons with disabilities from that of the charity mode to one of the rights mode, hoping that at least 5 per cent of the persons with mental retardation should have received education by 1986. It lay emphasis on making persons with disabilities as useful citizens in their adult lives. The Commission further recommended that both special schools and schools in the integrated school system should include persons with disabilities. The present paper focused on the study of various policies and program of disabled children in India with the prime objectives are (i) To understand the concept of disabled children (ii) To understand the policies of disabled children in India. (iii) To discuss the programs of disabled children in India.

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-89
Author(s):  
Sherwin Fraser

Abstract One of the major challenges facing special and general education teachers and parents in Guyana is the current educational move towards inclusion. This move has been characterized by the changing political and economic systems which have resulted in inclusion gaining increased momentum in many circles including major organizations, institutions, and even among members of civil society. Inclusion has also been touted as the prelude to meaningful political, economic, social, educational, religious, and cultural engagement in governance and other decision making processes in Guyana. The concept hinges on the right to participate and become involved in various activities regardless of ability or disability. The Jomtien Declaration (1990) which was adopted by the World Conference on Education for All in Thailand in March 1990, mandates the removal of barriers to education for all children. The declaration also affirms the right to education for every individual as well as equal access for all categories of persons with disabilities (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 1990). While the main pillar of the declaration is the right to education, it also mandates the removal of barriers that would prevent equal learning opportunities for vulnerable and marginalized groups (UNESCO, 1990). This paper examines issues relevant to inclusion and the education of children with learning disabilities in Guyana. The author gives an account of the political system, inclusive education, and legislation for persons with disabilities, and highlights the challenges faced by teachers in educating children with learning disabilities in Guyana.


2019 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 594-618
Author(s):  
Maya Indrasti ◽  
Faridah Jalil

Indonesia is committed to guarantee the right to education for all citizens without exception. The commitment of Indonesia to Education for All (EFA) leads to the fulfillment of inclusive education policies. The people of Indonesia tend to understand inclusive education as education for people with disabilities. On the other hand, inclusive education has a broader meaning, which does not refer only to special education. Furthermore, it also covers education with special services. The essence of inclusive education is to remove barriers that limit all marginalized learners, to respect diversity and needs, to create patterns of education without discrimination, and ultimately to achieve quality education. People’s understanding leads to questions about inclusive education in legal context, as well as the rules of inclusive education in Indonesia. This paper contains a qualitative study with a historical-doctrinal approach. The study aims to explain the right to inclusive education listed in the rules and regulations in Indonesia and their problems. From the normative point of view, the rules on inclusive education are regulated in the Law Number 8 of 2016 on Persons with Disabilities and the Regulation of the Minister of National Education Number 70 of 2009. Furthermore, the rules of inclusive education can also be found in several other regulations implicitly. Most of the rules have stipulated provisions that include the right to education. Therefore, the Government appears to be progressively realizing the respect, protection, and fulfillment of the right to education, including inclusive education, for all people of Indonesia.


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
María Ester Mancebo ◽  
Julia Pérez Zorrilla

In 2008, the Uruguayan General Education Law was enacted, stipulating the right to education and extending compulsory education from nine to fourteen years. This article analyzes the obstacles to design and implement educational policies to improve secondary education attainment rates during the governments headed by the Frente Amplio party from 2005 on. Using a qualitative approach, we employed a triangulation method that includes document analysis (laws and institutional reports) and 49 semi-structured interviews conducted between 2011 and 2015; the interviews covered government authorities, legislators, bureaucrats, experts and union leaders. We identified three potential causes of this policy gridlock: the institutional fragmentation of the educational system; the ideological disagreement between educational authorities and party members; and the teacher’s union veto. The educational policy stalemate in secondary education is explained by these multiple factors and their interaction.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phalguni Bhattacharya

Purpose: The present study examined the right to education of mentally challenged children in special schools and government schools to compare educational facilities and availability of special educators. Method: Sample of 40 special schools mentally challenged children and 40 Government schools under inclusion education system mentally challenged children of both gender participated.Similarly10 teachers of five special school and 10 teachers of five govt. school under inclusion education system. Measures used were self-made questionnaire. Result: Percentage revealed that Governmental facilities and availability of special educators significantly differ between special schools and Governmental schools under inclusion education structure. Contribution of the Research: After implementation of right to education act, education becomes the fundamental right of each and every child. Article 21-A included disabled children in this act. The contribution of the study is to betterment of Governmental facilities for all mentally challenged children of both schools and maintain proper ratio in class between special educator and mentally challenged children. Therefore the study enlightens more awareness among society about inclusion education system for mentally challenged children.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (253) ◽  
pp. 149-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Usree Bhattacharya ◽  
Lei Jiang

Abstract While the broader ambition of the Indian government’s Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act (2009) has been lauded, scholars have expressed reservations with the universal education measure. One area that has not been adequately addressed within these debates is the instructional medium. While RTE (2009) recognizes children who are “disadvantaged” as linguistic minorities, and stipulates that the “medium of instruction shall, as far as practicable, be in child’s mother tongue”, it offers little further direction. India is home to more than 1,652 languages, but only 43 languages function as instructional media. Therefore, the majority of children learn in a tongue that is not their home language, experiencing serious educational disadvantages. How this issue complicates the intent of the RTE (2009) Act remains to be explored. This article examines this gap using the theoretical lens of dis-citizenship, which is conceptualized in terms of exclusions experienced by marginalized groups. Here, we focus on those marginalized by the language of instruction. We investigate questions about language access, inclusion, equity, and rights arising from RTE (2009), within the narrative of India’s complex, hierarchical multilingualism.


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Shirly Said

In this article we recover the perspective of the sociology of emergencies and link the proposal of decolonial thinking with critical Latin American pedagogies. With this conceptual framework, and going through different conceptions of political subjectivation, we propose to approach the experience of People´s High Schools for Young People and Adults in Argentina (BPJA, for its acronym in Spanish) as part of the Latin American pedagogical movements oriented to the critical reconstruction of pedagogical knowledge. The BPJA are high schools for young people and adults that work in a self-managed way within the framework of territorial organizations and recovered factories, and carry out a political-pedagogical project linked to popular education with an emancipatory horizon. They demand that the State guarantees the right to education for all social sectors, while defending the political and pedagogical autonomy of their curriculum. Within the new social, political and -therefore- pedagogical ways of construction of various Latin American social movements, we propose that the BPJA are a significant expression of the gestation of emerging alternatives, which with great creative and self-reflective potential have managed to stress certain traditional forms of education, orienting themselves to the formation of political and critical subjects, and transforming themselves into collective pedagogical subjects.


Author(s):  
Firman Umar ◽  
Nur Syarif Ramadhan

This study aims to determine: (1) The fulfillment of basic rights to education for Persons with Disabilities in Makassar based on Local Regulation Makassar City No. 6 of 2013, (2) Obstacles encountered in obtaining the basic right of education of persons with disabilities in the city of Makassar, (3 ) the right solution to overcome the obstacles encountered in obtaining the basic right of education of persons with disabilities in the city of Makassar. This research is a study that used a qualitative descriptive approach, which is where the primary data source being informers are students with disabilities the high school level, students with disabilities S1, officials of Education Department of Makassar, members of Parliament of Makassar, the Management Organization disabilities, Pembina NGOs and Parents persons with disabilities. The data collection procedures used were interviews and documentation. While the analysis of the data used is descriptive analysis. The results showed that: (1) Makassar City Government has sought the fulfillment of the basic right to education for persons with disabilities in the city of Makassar. it is evidenced with the local regulations require every institution in which education in the city of Makassar to provide opportunities for persons with disabilities to education. The effect of the presence of these regulations is at the moment with disabilities have been able to attend school at any educational institutions both at school SLB, Regular schools and universities. (2) they encountered several obstacles that obtained with disabilities in getting the right to education that is still no educational establishments are not willing to accept persons with disabilities to attend regular schools, educational facilities are not accessible for persons with disabilities and there are educators at regular schools who do not understand in dealing with students with disabilities. (3) to overcome these obstacles, the government should socialize more about the policies that guarantee basic rights of education of persons with disabilities in educational institutions that are still not willing to accept students with disabilities. In addition, the government should identify the persons with disabilities who attend regular school, then allocate the budget for the procurement of infrastructure and training of educators in dealing with students with disabilities in regular schools and universities.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 496-510
Author(s):  
Maria Aparecida Vieira de Melo

RESUMO: O presente artigo visa expor reflexões acerca da educação inclusiva nas escolas do campo, ainda é um dos temas na educação do campo pouco discutido, daí a importância de um aprofundamento acerca desta temática. A intenção neste trabalho é discutir a inclusão nas escolas do campo de crianças acometidas por deficiências de qualquer natureza. E mais especificamente dialogar com os autores com que vem tendo esta preocupação contribuindo para que uma atenção especial seja oferecida as crianças deficientes da comunidade rural, em particular do Sítio Luz – Canhotinho-PE, identificar na legislação vigente as especificidades que tratam da inclusão nos espaços educativos e, por fim perceber a importância de fazer valer os direitos humanos das pessoas com deficiência em ocuparem as carteiras escolares das escolas de sua comunidade rural. O problema que norteia esta discussão é: a educação em direitos humanos promove a educação inclusiva nas escolas do campo? Metodologicamente este trabalho desenvolve-se a partir de uma revisão de literatura, a luz de autores que defendem os direitos humanos, o marco legal da educação inclusiva e a especificidade da educação do campo. Diante do exposto, percebe-se que a legislação contribui com a discussão do direito a inclusão nos processos educativos, mas não são evidentes especificamente nas escolas do campo, de tal forma os educadores também não estão preparados para intervir pedagogicamente às pessoas que precisam do atendimento especializado no sistema regular de ensino.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Direitos Humanos, atendimento especializado, marco legal.   ABSTRACT: This article aims to expose reflections on inclusive education in schools in the field, it is still one of the subjects in the education of little discussed field, hence the importance of deepening about this topic. The intent of this paper is to discuss the inclusion in the kids camp schools affected by disabilities of any kind. And more specifically dialogue with the authors that has had this concern contributing to that special attention be offered disabled children of the rural community, particularly the Light Site - Canhotinho-PE to identify the current legislation the specifics that deal with the inclusion in spaces educational and finally realize the importance of enforcing the human rights of persons with disabilities occupy the desks of the schools in their rural community. The problem that guides this discussion is: a human rights education promotes inclusive education in schools in the field? Methodologically this work develops from a literature review, the light of authors who defend human rights, the legal framework of inclusive education and the specificity of rural education. Given the above, we can see that the law contributes to the discussion of the right to inclusion in the educational processes, but are not evident especially in schools of the field, so educators are also not prepared to intervene pedagogically people in need of care specializes in the regular school system.   KEYWORDS: Human Rights, specialized care, legal framework.


2017 ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
Guillermo Moreno De Gracia

When speaking about education, we can't just think about the ordinary human being called "normal", but it should also address diversity. Curriculum accommodations, adaptations and physical accessibility are greatly important for educational inclusion to exist. A paradigm shift for educators involves the knowledge and acknowledgement of what disability is. On this note we outline from the legal standard all the instruments currently available which guarantee the right to education of personswith disabilities. Not only it is the Law or the standard, but there has to exist knowledge and acknowledgement of what it is in order for everyone to apply and comply.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 270-276
Author(s):  
JOGINDER SINGH

The Right to education,2009 is a historical right in India with a commitment to provide free and compulsory education to all children up to the age of 14. The Haryana government has notified its rules under the title “Rules for Haryana State under Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education 2010.”The study is based on mainly secondary data. An attempt has been made to examine the government’s initiative to ensure its effective implementation and also suggest measures for the improvements. The results indicate that The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 seems to have remained on paper more not only in the Haryana but in other states also.


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