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Khandelwal et al. (2022), in “Breaking out of your comfort zone: archival research on epistemology in inclusive education pedagogy for Industry 4.0”, emphasized on inclusive pedagogies to ensure students meet the technological needs of Industry 4.0. They stated that Industry 4.0 is more technology-oriented and needs people skilled in technologies to give equal opportunities to all, even the specially-abled candidates. This change calls for emphasizing faculties upgrading themselves and using inclusive practices to improve students’ employability.

The study highlighted that “inclusive education pedagogy through technology is the hot ticket for success for employers and disabled persons to survive in Industry 4.0 development” (p. 4).

The authors provided blended learning, art-based innovative pedagogy, massive open online courses (MOOCs), flipped classrooms, designing student engagement, crowd learning and gamification as different inclusive oriented pedagogies. Such pedagogies can help students work together in teams, accept cultural values and physical differences and support all students to study without discrimination in the mainstream. Through such an inclusive education learning, students can prepare themselves for future industry needs.

This study utilized an archival research approach that focused on the topical literature to examine well-organized ways to upraise the understanding of all learners in inclusive settings. The archival research method involves “collections of credentials (e.g. annual reports and newsletters), artefacts (e.g. photographs) to gain a perceptive of a preferred organization or professional group (e.g. teachers)” (p. 5). This process is an essential method of assisting educators in recognizing and investigating using this epistemology in new innovative, inclusive teaching pedagogy with technologies in Industry 4.0. Through this analysis, the authors provided that teachers “need to develop their skills and competency by breaking their comfort zone, and individual recital of every faculty affiliate is a decisive feature in accomplishing quality for inclusive education” (p. 4). Also, they emphasized developing an educational institution that provides passable facilities to academicians and students to adapt and utilize technology efficiently without any discrimination in Industry 4.0.