Understanding the Learner

1. INTEGRATED EDUCATION
DEBABRATA GIRI
TEACHER EDUCATOR
DIET,MAYURBHANJ,BARIPADA

2. Why Integrated Education

3. Shortcomings of Special Education
 High Expenditure per Students
 Keeping the Students away from home
 Refraining from mainstream
 Typical Disability Culture
 Problem to cope with the urban culture for Rural Students

4. What Is Integration
 The process of combining two or more things into one:
 The bringing of people of different racial or ethnic groups into
unrestricted and equal association, as in society or an organization;
desegregation
 In Chinese, the word “integration” literally means process of putting
different cultures together, based on positive moral concepts.

5. Exclusion vs. Integration vs. Inclusion

6. Defn of Integrated Education
 Integrated Education is the educational programme
in which exceptional children attend classes with
normal children on either a part or full time basis.
 It is placement of the differently abled children in
ordinary schools with some specialised educational
help and services.
 It does not necessarily integrate all the students
who are away from the education for any reason
like physically, mentally, socially deprived or
because of any cast, creed, gender, race, ability,
disability, life style etc.

7. Concept of Integrated Education
 During 1950-60 it started in India
 The concept of integrated education arises as
outcome of National Policy of Education, 1986
recommended to provide equal opportunity to all
not only for access but also for success.
 Integration signifies the process of interaction of
disabled children with normal children in the same
educational setting.
 Integration also means ‘mainstreaming’ or
‘Normalisation’. As disabled children are treated with
normal children.

8. Importance of Integrated Education
 It does not create a feeling of differentiation
among disabled children.
 It helps to remove inferiority complex among
disabled children.
 It provides peer group help in learning from
normal children.
 It provides disabled children a chance to enjoy
school life with normal children.
 It ensures social integration.

9. Continued…..
 It inculcates affection, love and respect for
differently abled children among normal
children.
 It is less expensive as special infrastructure is not
required. Special learning material and specially
trained teachers are not appointed.
 Disabled or challenged students may get help
from peers for learning and get motivated for
learning.

10. Specifications of Integrated Education
 To minimise Restriction
 Different Types of Assistance
 Pre School Education
 Guidance to their Parents
 Financial Assistance for- Reading and Writing Materials
 Dress
 Travel Allowance and Travel Assistive Device
 One Resource Teacher for 8 to 10 Students
 Resource Room

11. Cont.…..
 Provision for supply of Teaching Aids and Assistive Material depending
upon the need of Such Students.
 After the availability of such facilities a school can intake such students for
admission

12. For Success of Such Programme
 Coordination and Planning between Regular Tr and Specially Trained
Tr(Resource Tr) must be good.
 Preparedness of such Students
 Positive attitude of School
 Availability of Assistive Material
 Availability of Resource Teacher and Assistance
 Liaison between Differently abled Children with other Students

13. Shortcomings
 Neglecting the Need and Violating the Child Rights

14. Contd…
 If a School Fails to have minimum facility it cannot enrol such Students
 Importance on Enrolment
 Its Focus on Equality

15. Contd…
 Fails to Focus on Equity