Stakeholders’ Readiness for Inclusive Education in Oyo and Osun State towards attaining Sustainable Development Goals in education system

Abstract

The study examined stakeholders’ readiness for inclusive education in Oyo and Osun States towards the attainment of sustainable development education system. It adopts a descriptive statistics and uses self-structured questionnaire to elicit information from a selected sample size of 400 respondents using a multi-stage sampling techniques. Information obtained were subjected to analysis using descriptive and inferential statistics using regression analysis and ANOVA at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that although, inclusive education is well provided in Osun and Oyo State, but it gains prominence more in Osun State. The findings also revealed that stakeholders’ readiness such as service/product behavioural, system, and infrastructural were all significant variables that could be used to enhance the provision of inclusive education towards the attainment of sustainable development in Osun and Oyo States, Nigeria. It is therefore recommended that Ministry of Education, NGOs, Teacher training Institutions, and several others should provide a continuous and regular training and workshops, particularly for the teachers, school administrators, and also to several other supporting stakeholders to propel better readiness among the stakeholders on the provision of inclusive education in Nigeria.