University for All: Including Special Needs Learners in Education
Keywords:
inclusive education, learners’ engagement, special needs, trainingAbstract
This work investigates the incorporation of inclusive education to promote learners’ participation in general, and learners’ with special needs in particular, in the classroom context. Its objective seeks to understand the extent to which inclusive pedagogy is used to raise learners’ engagement in the classroom, especially those who have special needs. In this prospect, a questionnaire is administered to twenty teachers at the University of Tiaret- English section to undertake this study. The findings reveal the failure to integrate an inclusive approach at university due to the deficiency of a special training in the field to help this category of learners prosper in their learning.
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