Implementation of inclusive education for children with intellectual impairment in public primary schools: a case of Handeni district.

Sambua, Michael Benjamin (2023) Implementation of inclusive education for children with intellectual impairment in public primary schools: a case of Handeni district. Masters thesis, The Open Univesrity of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study aimed at assessing the implementation of inclusive education for children with intellectual impairment by focusing on four specific objectives, namely, to examine the availability of teaching and learning materials for pupils with intellectual impairment, to identify classroom teaching strategies promoting children with intellectual impairment in academic performance and to investigate the availability of qualified teachers in implementing inclusive education for children with intellectual impairment in public primary schools. This study employed with mixed-methods in research where by a total of 29 respondents were asked different questions (8 parents, 14 pupils and 7 teachers) participated in this study. The data were collected by using interview, questionnaires and documentary reviews. The quantitative data were analysed and summarized in terms of frequencies and percentages and qualitative data were analysed by using the content analysis. The findings indicated the highly and inadequate teaching and learning materials for pupils with intellectual impairment, lecturing teaching approach, lack of qualified teacher and issues surrounded the environment of children with intellectual impairment low performance, less consideration, language assessment procedures) lead to the failure of implementation of inclusive to pupils with intellectual impairment. This study calls for preparation of good environments to public primary schools, employing adequate and qualified special needs teachers, using interactive strategies and teaching and learning materials to improve implementation of inclusive education to pupils with intellectual impairment in public primary schools.

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