INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: LESSONS FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA) (original) (raw)

There is at the moment in Nigeria, no official ‘inclusion’ in her education practice, particularly for the people living with disabilities. The theory and practice of education in Nigeria are the products of colonial experience or the one in the contemporary sense, adopted from the systems of other developed nations. This study assesses the situation in connection with the practice of inclusive education in Nigeria and United States, using historical research method and relying heavily on both the primary and secondary sources of data. With the character of education in Nigeria today, the findings reveal that segregation, separation and discrimination are still featured. People with disabilities or glaring abnormalities of mental, social and physical conditions; for reason not totally theirs, are still suffering the segregation on what government considers intervention in terms of schooling, socio-economic and other succours. On the other hand, those developed countries that Nigeria copies, especially the United States is giving special priority, superlative consideration and attention to her less endowed and less opportuned or disabled in terms of education and other felt needs. So also with enabling laws that protect and present them with equal opportunities with those having no challenges in the American society, they are therefore not discriminated against, but accepted for who they are in terms of their challenges. Suggestions are offered, not limited to seeing the Nigerian government developing a positive disposition and emulate this effort of US in the inclusiveness of her education system, not the establishment of special schools which further segregate them.

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