THE ENABLERS AND BARRIERS TO THE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION POLICY: INSIGHTS FROM THE PRIMARY SCHOOL CONTEXT IN BANGLADESH

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Inclusive education (IE) is an important factor for an effective educational environment in society. Inclusion in education involve in viewing every person equally and give them equal value, ownership of mind, increasing participation teaching-learning activities, restructuring cultures, policy, and practices to respond diversity is essential.The researchers intended to explore primary school’s employee’s perceptions about the implementation of inclusive education and sought to investigate the enablers and barriers of inclusive education on the context of Bangladesh. The data were gathered through qualitative method using a semi - structure interviews with six participants from primary school teachers and Upazila educators. Thematic analysis techniques have been followed to analyse the collected primary data and the findings have discussed using inclusive education literature and policy. The findings of the research suggest that,to establish inclusive education unerringly the barriers need to diverge and the teachers should get adequate support. Furthermore, the existing curriculum should be modified and some assistive program need to initiate. In addition, friendly collaboration should be grown among the teacher, parent and community for a successful implementation of inclusive education.

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