Models of Disability and Inclusive Education

Journals

Title：
Models of Disability and Inclusive Education
Author：
Kiran Chalise
Author Affiliation：
School of Education, Kathmandu University, Hattiban, Nepal
Received：Feb.4, 2024
Accepted：Mar.8, 2024
Published：Mar.18, 2024

Abstract

A discussion on social and medical models of disabilities is always a paramount important when we talk about providing education to children with disabilities. The medical model of disability sees the person as a patient so it believes that the person needs to be medically healed to function well in the society. However, the social model of disability believes that subjugation and bias in society result from impairments that leads to marginalization and discrimination. So, a holistic approach in education is needed for the children with disabilities to support them holistically. When we talk about the connection between models of disability and inclusive education, generically there seems connection. The objective of the paper was to explore the ideas of models of disability and its connection to inclusive education. To explore the connection between models of disability and inclusive education, different literatures were collected from search engines, reviewed and analyzed from the angle of disability models. The literatures belonging to model of disability and inclusive education were analyzed from the perspectives interlinking to the role of disability models to the inclusive education. It is explored that there seems strong connection of social model to inclusive education. However, there is still a need of both models in dealing with the case of special education needs (SEN) of children with disabilities considering their profound and mild levels of disabilities.

Keywords

Disabilities, inclusive education, special needs education, social model, medical model.

Doi

https://doi.org/10.58396/te020105

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