There is no legal definition of inclusion or inclusion in education.
Whatever definitions are there, were developed by organisation and
advocacy group by their own. Therefore, it is very difficult to find
out universal definition of inclusion in education. However,
policymakers etc. are taken into consideration.
a.
Booth (1996) refers to inclusion as a process of increasing
participation and reducing exclusion within schools.
b.
Rogers (1993) opines that main streaming is a related term with
inclusion in education.
c.
Crawford and Porter (2004) defines, ‘Inclusion in education can be
defined as educational arrangement in which teachers have the
instructional and other support to foster the participation of all
learners in socially valuing relationship with diverse peers and
adults’.