Activity 3.6 Summary of the challenges of inclusive education – Lynda’s perspective

 1.      Insufficient competent personnel, people who are well-founded on inclusive education principles, within the education sector to guide inclusion practices throughout the country.

2.      Inadequate use of available resources. Local resources are not adequately channeled to support education for learners in our schools. This shows that curriculum do not have local contents.

3.      Special needs children are not mainstreamed into regular schools. Hence, when teachers who are trained to cater for them are posted to regular schools, they end up not practicing what they have learned. Teachers are not generally trained to cater for all students irrespective of needs.

4.      A lot of children with different disabilities access education, but the institutional support mechanism for inclusive education is not strong enough in the country.

I agree completely with Linda. Though there are a lot of policies on ground in Nigeria to support inclusive education at the basic and non-formal levels, implementation of such policies has suffered set back because there is no particular institution saddled with the responsibility of monitoring due to overlap of activities of various institutions in charge of such the schools and non-formal education centre like the Universal Basic Education Commission at the Federal level, State Universal Basic Education Board at the State level, the Local Government Education Authorities and others.