From Special to Inclusive Education in India

Chapter 5

St. Cross School: A School ‘Doing Inclusion’

This chapter presents a case study of the third school. It describes the main school, the organisation of special education in the school, the profiles of special children and how they are perceived by the parents and peers, their education, and parental, teachers and heads’ perspectives on the school with regard to integration and inclusion. As noted previously, this school is unique in the sense that it neither engaged special teachers, nor had established a special education unit or department with a separate head to look after such education and matters relating to the special children. The school counsellor was entrusted with the task of assisting the school head, and coordinating ...