CHALLENGES OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN POST COVID 19 ERA AND EMERGING SECURITY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Inclusive education is a programme that welcomes diversity among all learners. It removes discrimination of any kind from educational practices, caters for the needs and learning styles of individuals and provides all students with greater opportunities for academic and social achievement. This paper examines some issues in Inclusive Education, the challenges of Inclusive Education during COVID 19 pandemic has been highlighted. The paper also briefly discussed the emerging trends and security challenges in Nigeria, it briefly explains how insecurity and COVID 19 pandemic tremendously become a hindrance to the success of Education and raising the implication of Inclusive Education as a strategy for modifying schools’ systems. Suggested recommendations were put forward among others are: government should make sure that inclusive education should not be a matter of policy alone, but put into actual practice; school structures should be constructed bearing in mind the comfort and convenience of the disabled and teachers should be employed in adequate number to cater for the different needs of children with disabilities.