Title:
DE PERCEIVED CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, SA’ADATU RIMI COLLAGE OF EDUCATION KUMBOTSO, KANO STATE

Authors:
Aminu Idris Harbau And Hamza Muhammad Assani ,Nigeria

Abstract:
In many countries Nigerian inclusive, special classes were created for students with special needs with special educators teaching them separately in smaller groups, because it was felt that separately could help them to catch up. However, the truth is that students in segregated special education classes have fallen further and further behind. Over time, it has become apparent that inclusive education is a better way to help all students succeed. This paper was primary designed to find out Teachers’ perception on the various challenges of implementing inclusive education highlighted by many authors in Department of EconomicsSa’adatuRimi Collage of Education Kumbotso, Kano State. The study employs survey research design. The instrument used in data collection was a self-developed questionnaire. The validity of the fifteen items was established using LAWSHE validity ratio. A reliability index of 0.67 was estimate using test-re-test. The data was collected from a sample of thirty two 32 disproportionally and randomly selected academic staff out of the total population of thirty eight 38 academic staff from the Department of Economics,Sa’adatuRimi College of Education (SRCOE)Kumbotso. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to generate descriptive statistics and test the hypothesis. The research found that all most all the challenges formed part of the perceived challenges of implementing inclusive education in the Department of Economics, SRCOE Kumbotso. It was finally recommends among others that government should make all the possible efforts to improve and modify the existing physical facilities to make sure they are barrier-free and therefore easily accessible to all learners and should also at various level increases the budgetary allocation for the implementation of inclusive education in Kano and Nigeria in its annual budget.