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Inclusive Education for Students with Special Needs

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International Handbook of Educational Research in the Asia-Pacific Region

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At the most fundamental level, inclusive education starts with all students with special needs (SWSN) having access to the same educational opportunities as other children. According to Kholi (1993), however, in developing countries in Asia, only one per cent of such children actually have access to any education. However, inclusive education implies much more than SWSN having access to education. In particular, as emphasised in The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education (UNESCO, 1994), it requires that they have access to regular schools, and preferably regular classrooms, which in turn means that all schools should make appropriate adaptations to the curriculum, and teaching and assessment methods.

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  1. University of Waikato, New Zealand

    David Mitchell

  2. University of Melbourne, Australia

    Ishwar Desai

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  1. Flinders University Institute of International Education, Australia

    John P. Keeves

  2. National Institute for Educational Policy Research of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

    Ryo Watanabe

  3. UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Education, Bonn, Germany

    Rupert Maclean

  4. Griffith University, Southport, Australia

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  5. University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

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  6. New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Wellington, New Zealand

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  7. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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  8. Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong

    Yin Cheong Cheng

  9. Institute of International Education, Stockholm University, Sweden

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Mitchell, D., Desai, I. (2003). Inclusive Education for Students with Special Needs. In: Keeves, J.P., et al. International Handbook of Educational Research in the Asia-Pacific Region. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3368-7_14

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