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Including the Excluded: A Case Study of an Inclusive Classroom in an Inclusive Education School in Karachi, Pakistan

Thesis Info

Author

Khan, Sher Nawaz

Department

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

Program

MEd

Institute

Aga Khan University

Institute Type

Private

City

Karachi

Province

Sindh

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

2007

Thesis Completion Status

Completed

Subject

Education

Language

English

Added

2021-02-17 19:49:13

Modified

2024-03-24 20:25:49

ARI ID

1676727950204

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The purpose of inclusive education is to value children with special needs, so that they can participate equally in all educational activities in a general school along with their peers without discrimination. There is a worldwide movement towards establishing inclusive educational settings for children who have not as yet received due attention from governments and the private sector. The Salamanca Conference (1994) focused on education of the child with special education needs. In this gathering, all governments of the world were to ensure the basic education of all children with and without special education needs (SEN) within the existing mainstream schools. Many developed countries have already worked on this critical issue. In the developing countries, much less initiatives have been taken to include children with SEN in the mainstream schooling systems. As a result, there is a dearth of research in this area (with the exception of studies on teachers' attitudes), and where efforts (have been) made, they lack enough support, direction and clarity towards inclusive education. In Pakistan, as in many other developing counties, the government has given more attention to the inclusion of girl child in the main stream educational system, as compared to inclusion of the child with SEN. Despite these difficulties, I found a private school in Karachi, Pakistan, which has taken initiatives for implement a policy of inclusion of all children in their school. This study set out to find the perceptions, classroom practices, interactions, facilitating and hindering factors within an inclusive classroom and their relationship with the practical steps that can be taken towards inclusive education. The study was a case study, where in- depth interviews and classroom observations were conducted. The class had three students with SEN, and the remaining 22 students had no special needs. It was found that the participants (teachers, co-ordinator, and principal) had positive attitudes towards inclusion. They perceived that inclusive education (IE) allows all children to share the same school and classroom. There was a two-sided interaction (negative and positive) between perceptions and practices. The study also found that more students with SEN could be accommodated in mainstream classroom than the current number through the existing practice, for example, students having physical handicaps or mild impairments are not particularly disruptive to the classroom. In the research questions, through this study, six major themes were extracted; and they have been analyzed and discussed in chapter four. The key findings
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اسی مہینہ کادوسرا المناک سانحہ مولانا شوکت علی خادم کعبہ کی وفات ہے، شوکت علی مرحوم ہندوستان کے اُن پرچند مسلمانوں میں ایک تھے جن کی شہرت نہ صر ف ہندوستان تک محدود ہے بلکہ دنیائے اسلام کے دوردراز گوشوں تک ان کانام عزت واحترام کے ساتھ لیاجاتاہے اوریہ واقعہ ہے کہ مرحوم بجا طور پر اس شہرت و احترام کے مستحق تھے، پچھلے چند برسوں کوچھوڑ کر بلاخوف تردید کہا جا سکتاہے کہ مرحوم کی زندگی قربانی، ایثار، ولولہ اورجوش عمل کے اعتبار سے مسلمانوں کے لیے قابل تقلید نمونہ تھی،جنگ طرابلس اورجنگ بلقان سے لے کراب تک ہندوستانی مسلمانوں کی اجتماعی اورسیاسی زندگی کے جتنے دور گذرے ہیں مرحوم کی خدمات اُن تمام دوروں میں اس قدر نمایاں اوراس قدر روشن ہیں جنہیں کسی طرح فراموش نہیں کیا جاسکتا’’علی برادران‘‘ہندوستان کی دوشخصیتوں سے مرکب ایک ایسی حقیقت کانام ہے جس کے زبان پرآتے ہی کرداروعمل اورشجاعت وبسالت کاایک سبق آموز نقشہ آنکھوں کے سامنے آجاتاہے۔
صد حسرت وافسوس کہ ہندوستان اپنے ایک جانباز،بہادر سپاہی اورپرانے خادم سے ہمیشہ کے لیے محروم ہوگیا۔انا ﷲ واناالیہ راجعون۔ حق تعالیٰ مرحوم کی خدمات کوقبول فرمائے اوردامانِ رحمت میں جگہ دے۔
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Effect of Exogenous Application of Iaa. Brs and Ga3 on Growth Protein Contents and Antioxidative Enzyme Activities in Solanumtuberosuml. under Salt Stress.

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