Inclusive Education in the Face of a Global Pandemic: Providing Support

Abstract

Inclusivity in education has been perceived to be used in accommodating mostly students with disabilities as well integrating students with different learning abilities / needs. For which scholars have researched and proposed diverse models that can be used for efficient and effective implementation in and out of the classroom situation. These models / solutions as much as possible may not have captured instances of inclusive education (IE) in the era of a global pandemic such as the Covid-19 pandemic which is being experienced across the globe. The Covid-19 pandemic brought with it novel challenges that has affected every sphere of life, inclusive of education. It therefore requires novel, adaptive and transformative ways in responding to the problems that it brought about. As such the idea of this paper is to highlight possible practical issues as it pertains to inclusive education during the Covid-19 pandemic using review method. Hence, relevant literatures are reviewed. The submission following the reviews is adopted for conclusion and recommendations which indicates that institutions of learning are to look beyond the norm of inclusivity in education as it pertains to disabilities, but focus on exploring the adoption of digital devices for teaching and learning purposes.