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Direct linkLakshmi Balasubramanian; Ipshita Banerjee – Remedial and Special Education, 2024
Understanding inclusive education challenges in India involves acknowledging the complex linguistic, cultural, religious, and caste-based diversity affecting marginalized groups. Ambiguity surrounds implementing the "inclusion" concept, necessitating critical evaluation and adaptation to align with India's unique dynamics. Despite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Cultural Context, Indians
Shahid, Mohd; Raza, Md. Shahid; Alam, Md. Aftab – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2016
Reflecting through the Indian experiences, a brief attempt is made to explore how disability as a noun takes shape in popular common sense "call names" (adjectives) and how does the popular common sense legitimise and normalise the oppressive language and the oppressed reality of the persons with disabilities? In the Indian context, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages), Disabilities
Download full textLimaye, Sandhya – Global Education Review, 2016
The Central and State governments in India have formulated programs and policies over the years for children with disabilities in order to help them to enter mainstream society. However, despite these policies, children with disabilities are amongst the most disadvantaged in terms of access to schooling and completion of elementary education, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Disabilities, Educational Policy
Curcic, Svjetlana – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2009
With an aim to investigate inclusion across borders, quantitative and qualitative data were examined that came from 18 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Finland, France, Iceland, India, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the USA. Four themes emerged in this study: (1) concerns…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Foreign Countries, Mainstreaming, Cross Cultural Studies
Peer reviewedParasnis, Ila; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1996
Twenty-two hearing teachers or parents of deaf children in India completed a questionnaire concerning their perceptions of the suitability of nine professions for a deaf or hearing individual. The hearing status of the advisee selectively influenced respondents' ratings of a profession's suitability. (DB)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Deafness, Disability Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedAmritmahal, Ananda; Mehta, J. M. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1987
A project of the Poona (India) District Leprosy Committee offers training in the industrial sector to leprosy patients, orthopedically handicapped individuals, and socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals, under a common roof. The project aims to combat the leprosy stigma and to aid rehabilitation by making the trainees economically…
Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, Disability Discrimination, Diseases, Economically Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedAlur, Mithu – Exceptionality Education Canada, 2002
This article addresses the contextual background of India's Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and examines why the ICDS policy does not refer to individuals with special needs. It concludes that exclusion has been deeply rooted within the socio-political system. Policy shifts promoting sustainable strategies of inclusion are explored.…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Early Childhood Education
Singh, Delar K. – 2000
This paper discusses the Person's with Disabilities Act (PDA) passed in 1995 in India and compares it with the United State's Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1997. The comparison indicates the PDA is more limited in its coverage, does not include due process procedures, and does not fund the education of individuals with…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Disabilities
