Surname and Names: EDC ESTERHUYE
Student Number: -------------
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Department of Curriculum and Instructional
Assignment Number: 03 Unique number: 163730
Module Code: BTE2601
, Question 1
Inclusive education is when all students have access to good quality education. It is a system that
was created to ensure inclusivity regardless of your cultural origin background, socioeconomic
status, abilities, language or gender in the educational system.
It’s an environment in which children can learn in a classroom that is non-discriminating and where
all students are accepted and involved in all and accommodate learners who experience barriers.
Inclusive education encourages diversity where all learners have the opportunity to obtain their full
potential inside and outside of the classroom.
From my perspective, inclusive education should be seen as a right for any child without any
factors playing a role in it. Proper education should be provided to all children regardless of their
ability or other factors that play a role.
Inclusive education should not only be interpreted as including everyone, yet it should also focus
on exceptional teaching, equipped and qualified teachers and proper facilities. By creating a safe
environment where learners feel that they belong and could reach their full potential because they
were given opportunities and are proficient to accomplish them.
Question 2
Traditional medical approach
With this approach, a 'normal' educational system cannot accommodate individuals with disabilities.
They believe they require segregated facilities and a different education system. The
implementation focuses on medication and how therapy aids and even surgery to help 'correct' their
disability to fit the 'normal' environment.
The traditional medical approach sees ability and inability as objective - natural, inherent and
unchangeable characteristics of individuals. Learners diagnosed as 'physically disabled, slow,
mentally retarded, hearing impaired etc. Are seen as special, inferior and deficient, with an
emphasis on their limitations and weakness.
This approach had the following impact and effects on people with special needs and inclusive
education.
• The special education provided to learners created social isolation for these learners and focused
more on their weakness instead of their abilities ( Engelbrecht, Swart and Eloff 2001)
• They often regarded themselves as failures - because less was expected from them - social
isolation and reduced stimulation, support and cooperation.
• During apartheid mainly white students benefited from the provision for diverse education
because black learners were largly deprived of special education services and were obligated to
attend general educational schools without additional support.
Student Number: -------------
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Department of Curriculum and Instructional
Assignment Number: 03 Unique number: 163730
Module Code: BTE2601
, Question 1
Inclusive education is when all students have access to good quality education. It is a system that
was created to ensure inclusivity regardless of your cultural origin background, socioeconomic
status, abilities, language or gender in the educational system.
It’s an environment in which children can learn in a classroom that is non-discriminating and where
all students are accepted and involved in all and accommodate learners who experience barriers.
Inclusive education encourages diversity where all learners have the opportunity to obtain their full
potential inside and outside of the classroom.
From my perspective, inclusive education should be seen as a right for any child without any
factors playing a role in it. Proper education should be provided to all children regardless of their
ability or other factors that play a role.
Inclusive education should not only be interpreted as including everyone, yet it should also focus
on exceptional teaching, equipped and qualified teachers and proper facilities. By creating a safe
environment where learners feel that they belong and could reach their full potential because they
were given opportunities and are proficient to accomplish them.
Question 2
Traditional medical approach
With this approach, a 'normal' educational system cannot accommodate individuals with disabilities.
They believe they require segregated facilities and a different education system. The
implementation focuses on medication and how therapy aids and even surgery to help 'correct' their
disability to fit the 'normal' environment.
The traditional medical approach sees ability and inability as objective - natural, inherent and
unchangeable characteristics of individuals. Learners diagnosed as 'physically disabled, slow,
mentally retarded, hearing impaired etc. Are seen as special, inferior and deficient, with an
emphasis on their limitations and weakness.
This approach had the following impact and effects on people with special needs and inclusive
education.
• The special education provided to learners created social isolation for these learners and focused
more on their weakness instead of their abilities ( Engelbrecht, Swart and Eloff 2001)
• They often regarded themselves as failures - because less was expected from them - social
isolation and reduced stimulation, support and cooperation.
• During apartheid mainly white students benefited from the provision for diverse education
because black learners were largly deprived of special education services and were obligated to
attend general educational schools without additional support.
