Design and Development of Inclusive Practices in Higher Education

Abstract

Broadening involvements creativities has aimed towards improvement and opportunities to higher education for all class of society. Since the society has wider demand for education from almost all the segments along with legal reforms and human rights declarations, the initiatives concentrate mainly on enlightening access for students from various sectors along with traditionally side-lined backgrounds such as differently abled students, ethnic minorities, students with very low income and tribal students towards addressing inequities and dissimilarities in higher education. When one considers each society or educational institution which caters for higher education, it is unique and has a vast variety of historical context and its own cultures. Each of these institutions should understand and see how best it can achieve the vision of equity and inclusion. In education Inclusion take a major and specific meaning, every Nation has a different set of standards for explaining and understanding inclusion few take it forward as inclusive of differently abled students, few take it as human and civil rights and others take it as inclusive of economically backward students. The reasonable access to the higher education involves both quality and equity, the two principles that are balancing, but has a framework of objectivity differently. For one to participate in higher education, one need to have a reasonable principle that ever one is subjected with uniform opportunity to access. The term uniform or equality is termed as the equal opportunity or treatment given to everyone under the regulation without any discrimination. When one considers teacher’s attitudes and behaviours towards students becomes the most important aspect that gets related to the successful inclusion. Inclusiveness in education indicates that educational institutions should be freed from the influence of negative forms of discrimination on gender basis, differently abled, student’s culture, ethnicity, their religion or various differences that arise from learners geographic and socio-economic background.