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Student id: - Name: Priyanka Kumari Unit name: Understanding and supporting Inclusion. Assignment 1: Reflective Essay Due date: 10 th April 2023

This essay will start by explaining how historical developments of inclusive education has changed drastically in a broad range specially in education setting of Australia. This essay is more likely to focus on Early Years Learning Framework rather than ACARA. In this you will find out how histories have changed education system of disabled children and main thing is how the word disable is taking over by special needs children. These are all satisfied by broad range of research from the unit. I will also explain policies and practices that will underpin Australia inclusive education by inspiring through classroom practices. Furthermore, I will than discuss how educators’ pedagogical approach towards inclusive education has changed and inspired by developing their professional knowledge through various professional engagement. Lastly there will be discussion how educators play an important role in education setting to invite and make parents and children feel inclusive within the service and what are the benefits and challenges are in way to implement inclusive education provided with example. Every child has a fundamental right to education regardless of their ability, whether this is male, female, linguistic, emotional, low socioeconomic or Indigenous people (UNESCO,1994). UNSESCO has special intervention of providing children education, therefore education setting should provide inclusive environment for different characteristics and diversity of children (UNESCO, 1994). In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Right, declare the right to Education for every individual and recommencing the promise made from the community from the 1990 World Conference on Education for all reassuring the right of everyone regardless to their individual different (UNESCO, 1994). Diversity, inclusion, and disability emerged in education setting from the start of 1970 in Australia. There were many special schools which established between 1940 and 1970, to support and implement inclusive educational practices but they were unsuccessful to provide education to special need children not even the special schools. After intervention of karmel report the changes start happening from 1970 but still the process was very slow. Government has also extended their funding to support and provide inclusive education for all, even the private sector got the commonwealth funding to further support education for all. These all took long time to implement, finally in 1981 every jurisdiction in Australia had the policy for disabled students started to become reality in education setting. There is still long way to go to fully integrate education within Australia. According to Forlin, by 1990 most

school had education support worker to help special need children. By 2006, states of Australia have established their Education Support (ESC) Centre to support disabled children and trained staff to work and embed inclusive education. Education for all move forward pretty quick with the help of Salamanca statement (UNESCO,1994) and education setting and finally started implementing inclusive education within the service. While going through essential reading, I found there is a huge change in education system for special need children in Australia, start from 1970 to 2006. The data and the percentage of special schools and number of special need children in each states attend the service is remarkable. Disability discrimination act (DDA) and Disability standards for Education (DSfe) started helping education setting to implement curriculum according to the need of community, such as hiring inclusion support worker, physiologist, learning support teacher, speech therapist and physio to further support education for all (DDA,1992). As we are all aware that Australia is a culturally diverse country. Now a days teachers are also getting opportunity to upskill their knowledge how to better support in inclusive education. For example, if a child attends your service with a less gross moto skills teacher must closely observe and communicate with parents effectively and suggest them where they can go for better support and how you can assist that child to develop gross motor skills. When an education setting encourages and facilitate to improve their education system for children regardless of any differences, it gave the students as well as parents sense of belonging and motivate them to achieve same goals for everyone (ACECQA,2020b). UNICEF has emphasized on the rights of child about inclusive policies and practices implementing on education setting and describes as “ every child have rights to be treated equally and, no matter who they are, where they live, what their parents do, what language they speak, what their religion is, whether they are a boy or girl, what their culture is, whether they have a disability, whether they are rich or poor. No child should be treated unfairly on any basis” (UNICEF,2008). According to codes of conduct and ethics teachers are getting more positive attitude for taking care of children’s health, safety and wellbeing. It’s been decade the codes of conduct have established to support teacher and demonstrate their knowledge to being inclusive in their classroom. Since, then many things have changed and teacher has to demonstrate their professional behaviour with all the learners whom

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