Including Disabled Children in Learning:Challenges in Developing Countries.

Abstract

This is an exploratory study suggesting ways of analysing challenges for developing countries in the move to greater inclusion of disabled children and young people in learning. The paper focuses on pedagogical challenges to realising more inclusive education. Pedagogy encompasses not only the practice of teaching and learning, but also the ideas that inform practice held at various levels of the education system and in broader society. This paper therefore examines aspects of teaching and learning and ideas about the social purposes of education. It is based on a review of relevant literature drawing together insights from developing and developed economies.