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ETH302S INCLUSIVE EDUCATION ASSIGMENT AND CORRECT DETAILED
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Quiz Differences between Mainstreaming and Inclusive Education:
Ans: Mainstreaming:
1. Learners must 'fit into' or integrate into a particular kind of existing system.
2. Give some learners extra support in order for them to 'fit in' or integrate into the
'normal'
classroom routine.
Learners are assessed by specialist who diagnose and prescribe technical
interventions
(eg: placement of learners in programmes).
3. Focus on changes that must take place in learners so that they can 'fit in'.
The focus is on the learner.
Inclusion:
1. About recognising and respecting the differences among learners and on
similarities.
2. About supporting all learners, educators and the system as a whole so that the full
range of
learning needs can be met.
Focus is on learning and teaching actors.
Emphasis on the development of good teaching strategies that will be of benefit to all
learners.
3. Focus is on overcoming barriers in the system that prevents it from meeting the
full range of
learning needs.
Adaptation of support systems available in the classroom.
Quiz Main principles of Inclusive Education (MAAL EEE):
Ans: 1. Maximise participation of all learners and minimise barriers to learning are
NB in all
schools.
2. Attitudes, behaviour and methods must change to meet the needs of all learners.
,3. All children can learn, regardless of their differences in age, gender, ethnicity,
language,
disability, etc.
4. Learning does not only happen in formal settings, but also in informal settings like
the home
and community.
5. Each child has his own strengths and abilities.
6. Everyone needs to acknowledge and respect differences among learners.
7. Education structures, systems and learning methodologies must meet the needs
of all
learners.
Quiz Historically, there was an unequal delivery of education in SA:
Ans: 1. Two separate education systems: one for 'normal' learners; one for learners
labelled with
'special needs'.
2. A small % of children with 'special needs' from privileged sectors had access to
special
schools.
3. Many disadvantaged learners and those with 'special needs' were accepted into
'ordinary'
schools, but were ignored.
4. They were mostly rejected when they applied at schools and were thus
consequently
completely excluded from the educational system.
Quiz Strategies to initiate change within the SA education system:
Ans: 1. Early identification of barriers to learning.
2. Convergence of schools into full-service schools.
3. Establishment of district-based support teams.
4. Establishment of school-based support teams.
5. Strengthening of special schools.
6. In-service training for teachers.
Quiz Paradigm shift towards Inclusive Education - from Medical Model:
Ans: Medical model:
- Used in medical sectors.
- Find out what is wrong with the child and cure it.
- Focus is on diagnosis - ADHD, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, Down
Syndrome, etc.
- Determine school placements, eg: special schools.
- Child has the problem.
- Child must be diagnosed.
- Child must adjust to the classroom.
- Child is different from others and is in need of care.
- Needs specially trained teachers.
- Has special needs that can only be handled in a special place.
,- Needs special equipment.
- Needs special school/placement, because he does not learn like 'typical' children.
Quiz Paradigm shift towards Inclusive Education - from Social Model:
Ans: Social model:
- Learning problems are not only because of something that is 'wrong' with the child.
- Social, economic and political practices contribute to the child's learning difficulties.
- Other factors include: lack of proper resources, lack of access to service, inflexible
curriculum, lack of proper teacher training.
- System and society also create barriers to learning.
- Don't work with child's problems in isolation.
- Support should provided in all schools and classrooms.
- Barriers to learning occur from factors within and around the learner.
- Policies and legislation must change.
- Teaching strategies should be adapted to fit the child's needs.
- Collaborative efforts with different role players in the system.
- The curriculum must be adapted for multi-level teaching.
- Environment must be adapted.
- All learners need support.
Quiz Levels of support:
Ans: 1. Low - moderate level of support:
- Minor modification in a school environment.
- Eg: child in wheelchair with intact intellectual skills.
2. High level of support:
- Child experiencing more than one impairment.
- Eg: child in wheelchair with an intellectual disability.
Quiz Definitions: Inclusive education:
- An education framework that ensures access to education for all learners,
regardless of their
differences in culture, race, language, abilities, gender, socio-economic status, etc.
- It mandates that we all need to acknowledge and respect learner's differences and
provide
each learner with the necessary support.
Ans:
Quiz Definitions Full-service schools (FSS):
Ans: - Ordinary schools specially equipped to address a full range of learning
barriers among all
learners in an inclusive education system.
- Learners with low - moderate level of support.
Quiz Definitions Special schools as resource centres:
Ans: - Converted into resource centres.
, - Schools equipped to deliver education to learners in need of high-intensive
educational and
other support
- Integrated into the district support teams to provide specialised professional
support in
curriculum, assessment and instruction to neighbourhood schools.
- Accommodate learners in need of high level of support.
Roles:
- Early intervention and home programmes.
- Ensure that learners who attend intervention programmes do not automatically gain
entrance
into SSRC, but should follow the same process of accessing ordinary schools to get
support
through the DBST.
Quiz Universal design for learning (UDL):
Ans: - A strategy to develop an inclusive approach.
- Similar to the concept of differentiation.
- UDL aims to establish an education environment whereby all learners can learn.
- Learning materials are adapted to suit individual needs of all learners in order for
them to
learn and participate.
Quiz Mesosystem
Ans: - The mesosystem is a representation of the interaction of a child's
microsystems i.e home,
school and peers.
Quiz Normalisation
Ans: - Normalisation is an idea that all people regardless of their characteristics and
abilities have
the right and freedom to a normal school, home circumstances, normal jobs, etc.
Quiz Learning Support
Ans: - Learning support is a teaching practice that acknowledges the potential of all
learners to:
- grow at their own pace towards maximum level of independence in their learning
- using strategies and practising learning styles of choice
- and reaching level of achievement in accordance with their unique needs.
Integration
- Integration is the process whereby learners with and without disability attend the
same
schools in the neigbourhood.
Quiz Mainstreaming