Publication: Role of educators in main-streaming special needs education pupils in schools:A case study of public primary schools in Kasarani Constituency, Nairobi County, Kenya.
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2012-11
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Mount Kenya University
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The Koech report observed that the goal of education is to provide equal opportunities for all
children including those with special needs; hence the formulation of Total Quality Integrated
Education (TIQET), which, according to the report, is a comprehensive framework that
addresses previously, omitted aspects of education including special education. Different policies
have been formulated with varied implication on special needs. Special need education has not
been successful due to many challenges such as low funding among others. The main purpose of
the study was to investigate the role of educators in main streaming SNE pupils in schools with
specific reference to public primary schools in Kasarani constituency, Nairobi County, Kenya.
The study was guided by the following objectives; to determine the role of teachers in
main streaming learners with special needs in public primary schools, to find out the relationship
between educators training and main streaming learners with special needs in public primary
schools, to establish the impact of educators’ attitudes towards main streaming learners with
special needs in public primary schools and to determine effect of educators’ experience in
main streaming learners with special needs in public primary schools. This study is a descriptive
research that employed case study research design. The sample size for the study was 70
respondents. The data from the completed questionnaires was cleaned, re-coded and entered into
the computer using the statistical packages for social sciences (SPSS) for Windows for analysis.
The SPSS computer program was commanded to produce frequency tables, graphs, pie charts
and the necessary measures of variances for interpretation. Descriptive statistics (that is
frequency analysis) was computed for presenting and analysing the data. The findings indicated
that an assessment team to evaluate LSEN for special teaching methods is necessary for
successful main streaming of learners with special needs with the mean of 4.01 and a standard deviation of 0.954. The analysis of findings further indicated that majority of the head teachers
were of the view that negative attitude by teachers is a major barrier to education of learners with
special needs. The mean score and standard deviation in respect to this statement was 4.32 and
1.001 respectively. The study recommended that government should support mainstreaming of
learners with special needs in regular schools through policy intervention. This can be done by
ensuring policies and practices formulated and implemented are inclusive, equitable and
nondiscriminatory, and do not create barriers or reinforce the negative effects of the issue
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educational planning management, school of education