Inclusive Education: UNESCO Education for All

Exploring Education for All

This blog aims to highlight the details behind the ideals and implementation of UNESCO's inclusive Education for All mandate.

There is a selection useful links with extra information and resources about Inclusive Education as well as a collection of interesting quotes and facts.

Inclusive values = equality, rights, participation, learning, community, respect for diversity, trust, sustainability, compassion, honesty, courage, and joy.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Different Education Systems

Sue Stubbs, August 2000 (Retrieved from http://www.eenet.org.uk/resources/docs/square_holes.php)

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KEY POINTS ABOUT INCLUSION

*Inclusion is an unending process.

*Inclusive education is a constantly evolving process of change and improvement.

*Inclusive education is about the presence, participation and achievement of all learners.

*Inclusive education goes hand in hand with achieving EFA goals.

*Inclusion is a process of ongoing vigilance.

*EFA Inclusion means accepting diversity in race, religion, social class, ethnicity and ability.

USEFUL LINKS: Resources for Inclusive Education Policy and Practice

Six Goals of Education for All by 2015 - Website
Index to Inclusion - Document
EFA Flagship for Children with Disabilities - Document
UNESCO Inclusive Education - VIDEO
UNESCO's Guidelines for Inclusion - Document
UNESCO - Webpage
Enabling Education Network - Resources

Blog Archive

▼ 2011 (4)
- ▼ October (4)

Education for All: Class of 2015

EFA - Global Monitoring Report

GSIE - Global Strategy for Inclusive Education

Inclusive Language

~~special educational needs~~ 'resources to support learning and participation'

~~deficit thinking~~ 'presumption of competence'

~~deviance discourse~~ inclusion discourse'

~~access = education~~ 'presence, participation and achievement = education'

~~exclusion~~ 'inclusion'

~~the rhetoric of inclusion~~ 'the practice of inclusion'

What is inclusive education? (taken from www.eenet.org.uk)

Inclusive education is ...	Inclusive education is not ...
...a constantly evolving process of change and improvement within schools and the wider education system to make education more welcoming, learner-friendly, and beneficial for a wide range of people	...a one-off project that can be delivered and completed within a short timeframe
...about restructuring education cultures, policies and practices so that they can respond to a diverse range of learners - male and female; disabled and non-disabled; from different ethnic, language, religious or financial backgrounds; of different ages; and facing different health, migration, refugee or other vulnerability challenges	...focused just on developing education for disabled learners within mainstream settings
...about changing the education system so that it is flexible enough to accommodate any learner	...about trying to change the learner so that he/she can fit more conveniently into an unchanged education system
...an ongoing effort to identify and remove barriers that exclude learners within each unique situation	...based on following a set formula of actions that can be used in any situation
...about identifying and removing barriers to learners' presence in (access to) education,participation in the learning process, and academic and social achievement	...focused just on helping learners to gain access to schools or classrooms
...focused on solving attitude, practice, policy, environmental and resource barriers	...just about overcoming financial and environmental challenges
...a process in which all stakeholders should participate (teachers, learners, parents, community members, government policy-makers, local leaders, NGOs, etc)	...a project that can be implemented solely by external experts or education officials
...something that can happen outside the formal education system, as well as in formal school environments (inclusive education can happen in learning spaces that are non-formal, alternative, community-based, etc; with learners from young children through to elderly adults)	...just a process that happens in formal schools

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