Inclusive Education

I have been trained in a way that I believe in ‘verbs’ and have many a time found myself doubtful about the ‘adjectives’. When I first learnt that Department of B.Ed is organizing a lecture under 'Vimarsh Forum' on the topic, “Inclusive Education: Expectations and Challenges” (on 28th January, 2019 at 02:00 p.m. the conference hall); a very inane question popped up in my mind and I whispered to myself—Lo! One more, ‘adjective’. Isn’t the “education” per se enough that we need to talk about “inclusion in education”. Education to my mind is about connecting the dots. It goes all-out to turn the mirrors into windows. Which dot has remained unconnected that we need to have talks on “inclusive education”. What’s that has been excluded and needs to be included. My initial inquisitiveness made me to search the topic online and I found that the domains of “education entails a whole range of heterogeneous voices struggling to come out of the crevices of history. There are voices that are aversive to be tagged as ‘echoes’ and simply brushed under the table. I learnt that what once was a privilege is now a right. The adjective ‘inclusive’ not only adds to the meaning of the noun “education” rather it claims to be taken as a ‘verb’. We need to un-learn so much before we learn to pay attention to voices that demands to be heard. How can we define equality if we don’t treat others equal?