Electronic Education in Disability Sector: A Preliminary Report based on Special Educators’ Perspectives

Authors: Anindita Majumdar , Rita Karmakar , Prama Das , Oindrilla Ghosh

Pages: 4-7

Abstract:

Electronic education (e-education) has emerged as a novel teaching-learning pedagogy during COVID times. Researches thatare going on and have been published, mostly cater to the general education. Perspectives of e-education in special education/disability sector remains an unexplored area, especially in Indian context. This study has tried to bridge the gap byunderstanding special educators’ perspectives regarding e-education in disability sector. Qualitative interview technique wasadopted for data collection purpose. An in-depth analysis was conducted following thematic method for data analysis and reportgeneration. The work observed a gap in the areas of awareness, practice, training, and resource accessibility on part of thespecial educators’, while imparting e-education to disabled/ special need students. This report has made few suggestions andrecommendations in spheres of further researches, training, technological support, and development on e-education that canbenefit special need teaching-learning community of India in post-COVID era.