2nd Day of Seminar

Chandigarh:

The second day of the seven days’ National Seminar-cum-Workshop on Inclusion: Moving Forward from 19th to 25th August 2019, organized by Centre for Academic Leadership and Education Management (CALEM), Department of Education, PU, Chandigarh in collaboration with Government Rehabilitation Institute for Intellectual Disabilities (GRIID) was initiated by Prof. Kuldeep Kaur who chaired the session and also introduced the resource person for the first technical session Dr. Wasim Ahmad, Assistant Professor, GRIID. 

        Dr. Ahmed dwelled on the need and importance of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).  He also emphasized that UDL can eliminate the barriers in the curriculum and can benefit all the learners, not only those with special needs. 

The second session entitled, “Reflection on Inclusion from the perspectives of RTE 2009, RPWD 2016 and DNEP 2019 by Prof. Virendra Kumar, former Dean, Faculty of Laws, PU. He initiated the talk through an article titled “Over the teachers” published in the Indian Express, wherein he deliberated upon the idea of how education could be used or is being used as a powerful tool for bringing about Inclusive Social Order. 

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        Prof. Sudesh Mukhopadhyay, former Chairperson of Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) spoke intensively about the accommodations for being responsive and inclusive. She highlighted the difference between modification and accommodation and also emphasized how accommodation could help special kids to learn the same material 
which allows them to meet the expectations of the mainstream. 

        Dr. Himangshu Dass, Director, National Institute for Empowerment of Person with Multiple Disabilities, Chennai wherein he shared his experiences and highlighted the various experiments on inclusion in India. 

   All the sessions were very interactive and evoked pertinent questions by the participants which were explicated vividly by the experts. The sessions of day two concluded with the vote of thanks to all the resource persons by the program coordinator Prof. Raj K. Gupta.

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