Breaking Barriers, Building Bridge: A Twin-Track Approach to Inclusive Higher Education
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.66545/m489ny21Keywords:
Higher education, physically challenged students, barriers, inclusive education, SDG goal 10Abstract
The United Nation Sustainable Development Goal 10 (Reduced Inequalities) has set a target of ensuring that all members of the society are treated equally irrespective of their disability, gender, race, religious inclinations, or economic status by end of the year 2030. Therefore, for any nation to flourish and attain sustainable development goal 10, people with disabilities, regardless of the nature or severity of the disability, the needed related services should be provided. The present study assesses higher education for physically challenge students and barriers to inclusion for attainment of the sustainable development goal 10. The assessment reveals that attaining sustainable development goal 10 (equality, inclusion and opportunities for all before the end of the 2030) is not feasible with current practice of higher education for physically challenge students. The information gathered from the assessment show that many people still maintained the beliefs that educating disabled students is senseless and futile. Therefore, the study recommends that the Twin-Track Approach presented in this study should be adopted by all tertiary institutions as potential way to mitigate these barriers and facilitate the development of inclusiveness in higher education. This research extends our knowledge of higher education for physically challenge students and presents to us that Twin-Track Approach to inclusion is capable of addressing complex social, economic, and environmental issues, and facilitates inclusiveness in higher education through Quality of Leadership Knowledge and understanding of disability and capacity to build integrated and inclusive communities
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